Our guidelines for authoring and reauthoring courseware
If there really is no alternative to writing your own material, our
guidelines for BioNet members are simple and uncomplicated:
- Courseware should only be produced in response to
clearly-defined educational need in actual courses, not simply because
the production technology is available. It must be real courseware - no
production of 'resources' without a genuine recipient course.
- It must be easily reauthorable using simple authoring tools. No
high level language programming if it can be avoided.
- It must be produced by the academic who is initially going to use
it. No delegation to someone less familiar with the subject material.
No teams of programmers. No design by committee.
- It must be short, no more than 20 minutes running time. No epics,
no attempts to produce complete courses.
- It must not require hardware other than that readily available.
There is no point producing courseware if you don't have the hardware to
run it now with meaningful numbers of students.
- It should be deposited on the BioNet FTP server so that others can
have ready access to it. (Internet address: ftp.bionet.leeds.ac.uk).
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