Steps to creating teaching material

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• Make (draft) overall learning outcome (See Brainstorming: Overall learning outcomes #4)
• Decide on project/hypothetical example they could complete that demonstrates that they achieved the learning outcome (e.g. like the team project in the intro R course). See Brainstorm: Example/hypothetical project that achieves learning outcome #5.
• Break down the skills and knowledge they need to complete the project. See Skills and knowledge needed to complete learning outcome and project, grouped into sessions #7.
• Group the skills into similar concepts to be taught together as sessions. See Skills and knowledge needed to complete learning outcome and project, grouped into sessions #7.
• Order the sessions into when they should ideally be taught chronologically and create a schedule (pre-course and the 3 days) of what the course will look like. See Skills and knowledge needed to complete learning outcome and project, grouped into sessions #7.
• Within each session, create an overall learning outcome along with a set of learning objectives that work toward the learning outcome
• After the learning objectives are created, create a set of exercises (~1 per in-class hour) that support the learning objectives
• Finally, fill in all the content around the exercises with material that will allow the participants to complete the exercises

Resources

• Follow Bloom's Taxonomy for help in writing the learning outcomes and objectives.
  • ChatGPT is a good starting point for helping to write them too!