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An initiative with ambitions

The initiative seeks to ensure that our educational structures is aligned and up to speed with the technological and cultural development of our society. We believe that the initiative has reached it's goal only when making AAU Micro courses is an integrated part of the educational offerings Aalborg University provide.

However, we know that ambitious initiatives that seeks to change our educational practices requires organizational support. That's why we have CDUL's Production Team with expertise in pedagogy and didactics as well as video production, animation, 3D-modeling and much more, to help our teachers design, produce and implement professional and engaging courses.

Didactical and technical support all the way

CDUL's Production Team has had a vital role in supporting the initiative since the beginning with didactical and technical expertise. They help educators with:

• Ideating, designing and planning the course content
• Recording, editing, animating and developing course content
• Designing the digital learning space
• Implementing and setting course content on relevant platforms

The production team has made the daunting task of designing online courses and producing online course contents very easy to get started with.

Scaffolding the development of a new educational practice

When we plan teaching for our students, we as teachers must ensure that we scaffold their progress towards the learning objectives. Same thing goes when we want our educators to adopt new practices.

That is why the CDUL Production Team has defined a set of course formats they currently support. Your course content can consist of a single format, or a mix of them all, depending on what fits your subject matter or teaching style.

See explanations and examples of all formats below:

The Production Collaboration Process

For each of the above course content formats, we have defined a universal development- and production-process, which consists of a fixed set of phases, or steps, much like the courses we intend to create. 

So How Does it Work?

The process is thought to be linear, but can become dynamic, should there be a need to go back and re-evaluate the results from previous steps, which might become relevant when creating larger courses, especially those involving several instructors and/or media types.

For the more basic courses, the linear behavior is usually sufficient, when combined with careful planning and realistic deadlines.

Below you will find an interactive figure explaining each step in the process, starting from a meet-and-greet, all the way to implementation.

Note that while each block in the wheel is of the same size, these steps do not necessarily take the same amount of time and workload. Furthermore, the workload usually shifts from you as an instructor, to us as a team, the farther along we get in the process, until we reach final deployment where the final go-ahead and finishing touches become relevant.