Collaborative Lesson Development

Overview

Teaching: 60 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What are the advantages of open, collaborative lesson development?

• How can I encourage contributions to my lesson?

• What tools and resources are available to support collaborative lesson development?

Objectives

• Identify three ways to encourage contributions to their lesson.

• List three resources that could benefit the ongoing development and maintenance of their lesson.

• Review other lessons under development in [The Carpentries Incubator][incubator].

• Describe the life cycle of a lesson.

• Identify at least one thing they would like to learn more about.

Reading List

• CDH Chapter 6: Community Development Roles.
• CDH Chapter 7: Lesson Life Cycle.

Discussion Prompts

• What are some of the potential benefits of developing and maintaining a lesson in an open repository?
• What are some of the potential challenges?
• What features of GitHub can be used to promote and support collaborative lesson development?
• What resources are available in The Carpentries and elsewhere to support and guide collaborative development?
• What resource do you wish existed? Or wish you could find?
• What questions do you have about the lesson life cycle described in the CDH?
• What was the most valuable thing you learned during the Study Groups program?
• What was missing from the Study Groups program?

Homework Tasks

Note for groups of participants collaborating on a single lesson: ALL: a task to be done by all collaborators on a lesson; ONE: a task to be done by only one participant per lesson, ideally after discussion with their collaborators.

• (ALL) Complete the Lesson Development Study Groups feeback survey.
• (Optionally, ALL) write a post for The Carpentries blog, reflecting on your experience in this Study Groups program.

Key Points

• Key points will be defined during discussion.