Hi Christine,

Firstly, your choice of a student worksheet sounds fine. It's likely that there won't be many templates for you to make use of compared with other documents, but that means you'll make more use of the 'design principles' information.
Secondly, I'm not surprised by your comment on the competency map! I will need to make it more user friendly and will welcome all suggestions. What I was trying to do was to relate the learning to what the learner will be able to do in practice at the end of a module rather than to a list of learning outcomes linked to a syllabus. (what do you think of that approach?)
Finally, it is true that the websites identified by the Google search will produce 'duff' results as well as useful ones. My plan is to allow the group to get started and then, next week, to show how everyone can refine the search engine by not only identifying 'good' sites and giving them prominence in the search, but also identify 'duff'' sites and remove them from the search.

The expectation in the 'discovery learning' approach is that learners are presented with a range of learning resources and will make decisions about which best meet their learning needs. This will take longer than just following content provided by a tutor, but will result in a deeper understanding of the subject through looking at it in the different ways presented by different resources. A discussion between learners about the merits of different sites and guidance from the tutor will also enrich the learning experience.
What do the rest of the group think? Post your comments here and feel free to discuss eachothers views.

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