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Copyright notice and open licence
Accessibility
Acknowledgements
1. What is an Open course?
2. How do you get access to an Open course?
3. Why should you develop an Open course?
4. What should you consider before developing an Open course?
5. Creating your course proposal
6. Exploring key considerations
7. Reusing or repurposing existing courses
8. Engaging stakeholders
9. Managing stakeholder collaboration
10. Selecting a hosting platform
11. FutureLearn and Coursera features overview
12. High-level design: Planning your course
13. Scheduling design workshops
14. Incorporating design thinking
15. Exploring design thinking resources
16. Developing an outline for your course
17. Exploring hosting platform and tool affordances
18. Detailed design: Specifying learning tasks and activities
19. Authoring a content script
20. Collaborating effectively
21. Refining and improving drafts
22. Overcoming constraints
23. Designing for reuse
24. Writing for screens
25. Specifying visual imagery
26. Designing audio-visual assets
27. Designing interactive learning assets
28. Signing off the content
29. Making your course available
30. Promoting your course
31. Supporting learners
32. Engaging educators
33. Facilitating the course
34. Certification
35. Certificate of Achievement
36. Certificate of Facilitation
37. Evaluation
38. Analysing learner data
39. Updating and maintaining the course
40. Scheduling regular course updates
41. Next Steps
42. Appendix 1: Course Proposal
43. Appendix 2: Key considerations for your course proposal
44. Appendix 3: Design thinking resources
45. Appendix 4: Course Outline
46. Appendix 5: Content Script
47. Appendix 6: Video Script
48. Appendix 7: Facilitation
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