eDoer platform is built upon a hierarchy of fundamental concepts including Learning journey, Course, Topic, and Resource-set that help everyone to organize a subject for learning. This guideline introduces these elements.
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Learning Journey
Learning journey is the longest learning path in eDoer hierarchy. It contains a set of related courses that support learners to deepen their knowledge in a broad area. A journey can be a university major, a job, a broad skill, or even a long-term goal.
For example, “Tracing Human Civilization” can be a learning journey that focuses on the history of humans in different periods and each period will be a course. As another example, to become an expert in the area of data science, a learning journey with the title “Data Scientist with Python” can be learnt, which includes courses on “Machine Learning”, “Python Programming”, “Data Visualization”.
Course
Course is the second largest path in eDoer hierarchy. It contains a series of topics that are like ordered lessons (or sections) for learning the course. A course can be equivalent to a university course, a skill, or a even a book.
For example, “Python Programming” can be a course which covers the following topics:
- Introduction to Python
- Python installation
- Python variables
- …
Whether independently defined or integrated into a larger learning journey, a course serves as a self-contained module, which supports learners in grasping required knowledge in the course target area through learning the including topics.
Topic
Topic is a small building block in eDoer hierarchy. It breaks down the course into meaningful components that can be learned in a session. As an example, “Introduction to Python” can be a valid topic for “Python Programming” course.
Whether independently defined or integrated into a course, a topic serves as a small self-learnable building block.
Resource-set
In our system, resource-sets refer to content that covers a specific topic. It could include one/several resources that can take various forms, such as a PDF file, a link to a webpage. While, typically a resource-set covers a single topic, it is important to note that this is not a strict requirement. So, one resource-set may cover multiple topics.