🧶 How Andrew Barry created the curriculum for #ODCC1

@Bazzaruto takes us behind the scenes of creating the curriculum for On Deck Course Creators.

Biggest takeaways + video 👇🏼
🧱 Think in first principles: reflect, deconstruct, reconstruct
🚩 Start by defining pillars and high-level buckets of knowledge—these are milestones
🧠 Brain dump a list of topics under each pillar—this is ever-changing, so keep iterating
⏳ Define the steps on the learning journey—consider your constraints, especially time
🎭 Treat the learning journey as a story arc (e.g. following the Hero's Journey)
🪡 Pull topics into each step, adding more topics if necessary—also, some may repeat
☑️ Make sure to define learning outcomes + prompts to action for each topic/lesson
✍🏼 Jot down your ideas and thoughts for each lesson—use it to produce your content
📋 For each lesson, consider stories and examples, worksheets ideas, breakouts + more
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Check out @Bazzaruto's video for more details, and to see how he does it in Notion! 👇🏼

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