The Design Process

Investing and Borrowing Money, Moodle Project

Completed as a requriement of the Masters of Learning Science and Technology course at the University of Sydney, 2007.

By Annette Culley:

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I have kept a record of the design process in my Blog in Moodle at

http://moodle.edfac.usyd.edu.au/blog/index.php?userid=7&courseid=7

I used a tailor-made approach to this course design which allowed the design to evolve over a number of iterative cycles. First the Instructional Strategy table was produced. Secondly the learning design was represented by three levels of flowcharts. From this the XML binding was tested in Moodle. The use of Data Flow Diagrams and a Context Diagram were very good for identifying the Media resources that were to be used in the Moodle Environment. Finally the detailed lesson-by-lesson and Task description provides the final document to be ready to start the Development phase of the project.

	Client Consultation- Course Description
	Syllabus- Identify unit, Course Scope determined
	1. Instructional Strategy - table based on syllabus objectives and outcomes. Beginning to identify the various media I will use and the division/sub topics of the course.
	Research/Reading about Problem based learning- ongoing
	2. Flowcharts with 3 levels of modules- this process organises the order in which the course will proceed and identify the critical instructional assets.  My flowcharts included the names of the SCORM organisations and Items
	Design and test the SCORM Package to match flowchart: imsmanifest.xml and html templates for resources are uploaded into the Moodle LMP
	3. Context Diagram and two Data Flow diagrams- this was very useful to see the way information flowed between students and teacher, the processes and the data stores.
	Course Requirements/Assessment Document
	4. Detailed lesson-by-lesson and Task description- will assist in the content of the web resources within the course.
	Review this meets the syllabus requirements- The syllabus requirements are to be placed within the web pages (SCORM Items)
	Client consultation- to make sure this design is suitable before the development phase begins.
	Finalise Documentation (10-12 HOURS PER WEEK, 7 WEEKS = 70 -80 HOURS)

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