My Jam: Peanut Butter Jelly in Space
When you talk about the essentials, the peanut butter jelly sandwich
is the standard for taste, longevity, and reliability. Perhaps one of the greatest
sandwiches ever. Need a quick and easy sandwich? One that both substantiates
and stimulates the taste buds? Look no
further than the PBJ!
I wonder what does that PBJ looks and taste like in space?
Is it the same?
Like a PBJ, does really good content live across several
platforms as one thing? Does the PBJ work everywhere and in every situation?
It’s not enough to convert classroom lectures into online
courses just like a PBJ doesn’t make sense in space. “Most successful
OpenCourseWares have staff dedicated to handling the technical process of
converting course content into OCW content.” (Caswell 2008) To maintain
effective content and adaptive learning environments materials must be prepared
for the distance learner.
This is a position I would be interested in doing for a
company. I find that companies don’t realize the planning and organization involved
with developing online course content. Most companies have loads of data but they
don’t know how to digitize it. Working with a client or SME’s to get the
content ready for production sounds like something that an Instructional
Designer with my background would be perfect for.
Nothing is as plug and play as we would like to think. I gave a workshop to faculty yesterday. Some commented about how they were trying to look at open courses, OER (they had been told by someone else that was key to their course redesign) and they couldn't find the right thing. They were disappointed, worried they were doing it wrong. I reassured them otherwise.
ReplyDeleteReally good PBJ and really good content are both subjective -- one person's perfect meal/course is another's "meh" one.