Making a meal of it
First, there was a question:
"How does the shift towards programme-based planning & accreditation fit with the shift towards greater granularity of content offerings?"Then there was an answer.
It was one of those lovely moments when things connect. Daughter #3 & I were comparing homeworks over tea (as you do) & she wanted to know what Learning Objects were. By the time I'd finished explaining, & my husband had thrown Learning Outcomes into the mix, it suddenly made sense.
I changed them into Shopping Outcomes, eg "a balanced meal for Monday tea". The pasta carbonara you buy for it doesn't come labelled as "Monday tea", because it might also be suitable as "Tuesday lunch" or "Wednesday supper". It's a Shopping Object that can be chosen for lots of different purposes. You might choose to add a green beans Shopping Object to accompany it.
So... the Shopping Outcomes are not embedded in the Shopping Objects. They're on the shopper's shopping list for the week's menu (the programme). Perfectly obvious, really, but it took a while for the lightbulb to come on.
The question came from a webcast of the OU's recent conference on Curriculum Futures.
The Learning Objects came from H806 (even though I'm not up to that part yet).
The pasta carbonara came from Asda.
posted by bluefluff @ 3:45 am
3 comments
3 Comments:
But what of the random shopper?
I think we can probably make room for them, even if it does mess up the stock control ;-)
love this post bluefluff - just my kind of teaching/learning - with some real purpose other than ticking a competence/incompetence box. Reminds me of when I was working with a group of hospitality managers some years ago - 'critical path analysis' meant nothing to them until I introduced the idea of making sandwiches, and then of making sandwiches on an afternoon when the restaurant is closed, only the gardener is on duty, the bakery is on strike and 4 busloads of tourists turn up having been lost in the desert for a week!! Yes, let's hear it for sensible learning!
Post a Comment
<< Home