The University of Glasgow’s Course Content Mapping (CCM) framework represents a transformative approach to learning design that champions meaningful course design, accessibility, and collaboration. This innovative framework has supported over 200 staff in developing diverse online offerings, including MOOCs, microcredentials, and full degree programmes across various platforms, including Moodle.
Available through tools like Miro or Excel, the framework enables multiple collaborators to conceptualise course design by sequencing learning activities, using pre-defined cards (Miro) or drop-down selections (Excel), representing six research-based learning types: acquisition, inquiry, practice, production, discussion, and collaboration (Laurillard, 2012).
Our CCM Excel spreadsheet reimagines traditional course mapping by providing a visual time-allocation dashboard that helps educators balance different learning activities across weeks, ensuring alignment with intended learning outcomes. The CCM spreadsheet also tracks crucial metrics, including notional learning hours, location (remote/campus), and synchronicity, while dynamically adapting to specific platforms like Moodle by automatically updating available activities.
Most recently, we’ve advanced the framework through collaboration with third-year Computing Science students, resulting in alpha builds of two web applications. Though still in early stages, these prototypes already showcase thoughtful UI/UX design principles and institutional Single Sign-On (SSO) integration capabilities, with planned iterations based on user feedback from our educational technology community.
Attendees will leave with:
- Access to our CCM template spreadsheet
- Practical strategies for mapping Moodle-specific activities to pedagogical learning types
- Approach for translating CCM designs into effective Moodle course structures
Ref: Laurillard, D. 2012. Teaching as a design science: Building pedagogical patterns for learning and technology. New York, NY: Routledge