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Technical Standards for the Digital Education Revolution: Lesson Plans

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As part of the Technical Standards for the DER (TS-DER), Link Affiliates recently completed an investigation into the school sector’s requirements for the sharing of lesson plans.  As with other activities for the TS-DER project, a panel of experts from the school’s sector was drawn together to form a focus group to assist with the investigation.   The lesson plans activity had two broad objectives.

  1. Identify requirements for the sector for the sharing of lesson plans.
  2. Build a demonstrator showing how lesson plans can be shared between disparate environments.

Identifying requirements for sharing lesson plans

The focus group consisted of members with diverse backgrounds and experience.  This was reflected in the group’s definitions of what lesson plans are and the benefits obtainable from sharing them.  Lesson plans are a commonly used term and, like other forms of digital content such as e-portfolios and learning objects, mean different things to different people.
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Written by jerry

July 7, 2010 at 3:22 pm

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