a framework for toolmaking
Once the exercises are written and placed inside a narrative model that still leaves figuring out how people will get to them and use them and record their work. Each of the example frameworks the Context section uses a different media to get their message across.
Typically the delivery method is one of the first things decided, actually. You are assigned to teach a class or want to write a book. I think it is effective to put that off if you can because then you are free to pick the model that works best for the content.
There are decisions about the mechanics of the interaction design
- How public is the experience for someone going through the process? Can a limited group see everything they do? A large group see a few things?
- How actively is it moderated? Is it being supervised live or is the supervision automated or nonexistent? Is the moderator passive or active? How totalitarian is it? How much of the learning is peer-to-peer?
- What does the timeline look like? How structured of definitive is the course outline in terms of time? Is it structured so a group can work together or self-directed? Is it a one-off workshop for weekend warriors or a series of repeated cycles?
There are decisions about the aesthetics of the interaction design Aesthetics
- How much information (lesson content) is there? Is it just things to do or did the other take on the role of expert, too?
- Where are the questions/assignments relative to that content? Is it a seminar class or a big Science 101 section with separate lecture and lab times? Or is it just content? No explicit assignments at all.
- Where are the answers supposed to go? Is it a workbook that you put the responses down in situ?Is it a text book that you respond to on a separate sheet?
- How designed is it/How archival is it meant to be? How much time was spent producing the artifact given to the learner? How much time is the learner expected to spend creating their own? Is it an album or portfolio they could keep forever? Scrap paper scratching that no one ever is meant to look at again anyway?
Weighing all these ideas I came to decisions as to what my next steps might be.