2: A Framework for Designing Online Texts
Design of an Online Textbook Replacement: a Comprehensive Guide Content, Architecture, and Pedagogy as a Framework for Design.
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- 2.1: What is the framework for design?
- When building a LibreTexts page, consider: content, architecture, and pedagogy (CAP) as a framework. A framework is a basic structure underlying a concept, system, or process. In order to maximize learning as a process, we must begin by examining the framework of learning itself -- how we assimilate new knowledge. CAP provides us a starting point to begin to think differently about how we learn.
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- 2.2: Content on LibreTexts
- A textbook starts with some thoughts about content. What is it we want to teach? This part of CAP is obviously critical - but it is the least important to discuss in general for a few reasons: (1) Each course within each discipline is different; (2) each professor will want to cover different things in different levels of depth; and (3) it is mostly the same as what you would find in a traditional hardcopy textbook.
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- 2.3: Architecture and Pedagogy in Relation to LibreTexts
- When building a LibreTexts course, the layout and design will influence learners and their ability to retain new information. This is both due to how content is laid out within a given page, but also in how to organize the pages into a full set of learning materials. Because online platforms provide the user with greater customization capabilities, we are able to implement psychologically sound architecture principles and pedagogical foundations.
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