Learning Design

This document records notes on the exploratory work that follows on from the Measuring qualification effects project, and Refining a framework project, to apply the classification process to teaching materials, specifically to support analysis applying the OU’s Learning Design scheme.

Workflow

learning design workflow

The workflow begins with manually acquiring the teaching materials. This has been both from the course team direct and from LTI, in both Word and XML formats.

Ad hoc scripts based on those already in the framework such as extract_text_from_docx are used. Once an agreed workflow has been developed a matching script will be prepared.

Learning Design folder

Contains the prepared teaching materials for classification, and the classification outputs.

classify_teaching_materials script

Applies the selected classification scheme, currently always lda, to the prepared teaching materials.

The classification output for individual documents is written back into the appropriate source sub-folder, while the course classification summary for the course is written to the root folder.

taxonomies folder

The classifiers are set using the standard workflow.

See prepare classifier documentation for more information.