23 Designing for reuse

To make most of your investment in creating the course, consider how you may design tasks and activities so that they can be reused. For example, they might be used in other Open courses, as standalone resources, or in support of your and colleagues’ teaching.

One approach is to see each part of the course as discrete but still connected to the main narrative. Instructional text and signposting can connect what has gone before to what follows; learning activities can then stand alone and be reused elsewhere with the minimum of effort.