http://liveandletlearn.net/you-are-here-competency-based-drowning/ Living and learning for life Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://liveandletlearn.net/you-are-here-competency-based-drowning/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 live and let learn » Enter the Next level of Web Design Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:23:00 +0000 http://liveandletlearn.net/learning/?p=116#comment-1018 [...] To enable learners to progress through the course flexibly we’ve been structuring the Web Design Wiki-course into topics (Basic HTML/CSS, Intermediate HTML/CSS, Client-side scripting, Server-side scripting, Emerging Technologies etc) that are based on the national units of competency - which makes great sense for assessment, but not so much for learning. One big problem is that most topics are either too narrowly defined or, on the other hand, way too big to focus on in one hit. Most participants get overwhelmed when they first hit Javascript. They feel that they’re not “getting it” quickly enough and their motivation levels start to sink (an effect think of as Competency Based Drowning). [...] [...] To enable learners to progress through the course flexibly we’ve been structuring the Web Design Wiki-course into topics (Basic HTML/CSS, Intermediate HTML/CSS, Client-side scripting, Server-side scripting, Emerging Technologies etc) that are based on the national units of competency – which makes great sense for assessment, but not so much for learning. One big problem is that most topics are either too narrowly defined or, on the other hand, way too big to focus on in one hit. Most participants get overwhelmed when they first hit Javascript. They feel that they’re not “getting it” quickly enough and their motivation levels start to sink (an effect think of as Competency Based Drowning). [...]

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