Guild Quest #2

For Guild Quest #2, we worked as a class (while David was traveling) on our project to build an open course. We worked under the assumption that the in-class guilds would be working on collecting resources and building an open course in fulfillment of guild quests 2-6.


The two class sessions for the week were working sessions. During the class sessions we defined the tasks we needed to complete, worked on approach, and chose which topics we would consider for our course.


During the first working session, we defined the steps we needed to take the build a course and narrowed our possible course topics down to U.S. History or Language Arts. Each guild member chose two standards from the Utah State K-12 published standards for each of the two courses (total of four standards for each person). We agreed that each member would spend 2-3 hours evaluating available open resources for their assigned standards. Our objective was to gather information in order to inform a decision about the feasibility of building a course on open content.


During the second in-class working session we discussed our findings. There were extensive resources available in both the Language Arts and History courses. Ultimately, we chose to divide into two guilds with guild 1 choosing to build a Language Arts course and Guild 2 choosing to build a Personal Finance course. Our selections were based on availability of resources, personal interest, and a perceived need in the OCW community.


Guild 1 – Language Arts
Jared
Aaron
Cary


Guild 2 – Personal Finance
John
Sara Joy
Justin


The next steps, and our next post, will be to collect resources, including examples of syllabi, as a means to develop learning objectives and a structure for the course.