Title: Week 3 & 4: Develop necessary learning materials (Step 3)
Course: Blended learning and distance education skills > Section: Course Content

Based on a clear and detailed picture of the blended course the actual materials need to be produced. This includes both online and offline learning materials. In some cases this means getting to know the tooling used (for example creating a video), experimenting, and adjusting the designs. Because producing educational materials is time consuming two weeks a reserved for this phase.

After this week you are able to:

-          Create educational blended learning materials based on the educational design.

In these two weeks, you have time to go into the production phase in which you will realize your design ideas.

The production of video and audio materials consists of the following phases:

- Prepare and plan: Write a scenario, develop the PowerPoint, choose the software you will use, etc.
- Produce: Produce the actual material to be used in the course
- Evaluate: Review if the produced material meets quality standards, ask colleagues for their opinion, etc.

It is also a good idea to search for useful digital learning material on the Internet. That saves a lot of development time. We developed a Learning_resources_template that you could use to make an overview of the learning resources found elsewhere that could be useful. Evaluate these learning resources carefully, to see if they have the right content and level.

The same phases are applicable in case you want to use a specific tool in your class, like for instance voting tools:

- Prepare and plan: Choose the software you want to use and decide where/how you would like to use it.
- Produce: Install the tool, develop a lesson plan, develop a Powerpoint, design the learning activity.
- Evaluate: Test the tool and the learning activity with others and ask them for their opinion.

Every course participant will choose different types of blended learning activities and materials to work on. Therefore there are no specified learning activities in this section. However, the phases mentioned above apply.

The Toolbox on Blended Learning, developed by CELT from the University of Twente, offers a wide range of useful tipsheets and formats that you could use for developing your blended learning materials.

The following documents from the Toolbox can be useful:

If you want feedback on your draft products, please share them in the Course Forum. The instructors will have a look at the Forum regularly.