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Designing for Reuse: �Taxonomies, Tagging, and Plugins for Modular Lesson Content

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Hello!

Research & Development Specialist TEL Library: https://tellibrary.org

I’m Kate Reynolds, and I have over 10 years combined experience with WordPress, Higher Ed, and Publishing. Whew!

Contact

@k8monstrsCloset

kate@tellibrary.org

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TEL Library

Dedicated to building a scalable and sustainable library of openly licensed, free and affordable content solutions.

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Write once, run many times.

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Developing flexible content�
Technology adoption

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Stackable Lessons^TM

Enter the Stackable Lesson. Starting with this as our smallest content unit allows us to use ground-up approach. These lessons are the building blocks of our content, and are stackable, reusable objects that can be combined with other lessons, regardless of subject and order, without losing coherence or learning efficacy. We can say that because our lessons are built on a template, which moves learners through contextualization, elaboration, relevance, agency, until they finally arrive at mastery. Now, I’m not saying that you can stack these lessons any different way and that stack will make sense. The tower I made for this slide might not be a very logical sequence for students, but each unit would still be coherent and effective in terms of learning.

While Stackable Lesson are what allows us to “Write once, run many times” creating these is actually the second step in our larger development and production cycle.

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Taxonomies: schemes of classification that often denote hierarchy.

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1. Repurpose lessons

2. Distributed authoring

3. WP tagging structure

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Repurpose lessons

Taxonomy A

Taxonomy B

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Distributed Authoring

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WordPress Tagging Structure

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Information Science is cool!

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Base Taxonomy Types

Tags
Categories

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LearnDash Taxonomy Types

Course Categories
Course Tags
Module Categories
Module Tags
Lesson Categories
Lesson Tags

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Moving content across multiple sites
Replicating content for multiple products

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Moving Content

Site A

Site B

Site C

Broadcast Plugin

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General Use Cases

Author Review
White label sites
Course sections
Student blogs & assignments

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Multiplying Content

1. Content Cloner Plugin

2. Post Duplicator Plugin

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Conditional Rules

Conditional rules to display sidebars based on…

Post types (post, page, or custom post types)
Taxonomies (tag, categories, lesson tags, lesson categories, etc.)
Dates, URLs, etc.

Content Aware Sidebars

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WP Plugins are the pixie dust that makes our content fly.

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“Write once, run many times”

Identify your smallest, reusable content block�
Create taxonomy and tag/categorize in WP�
Use plugins (or custom dev) to deploy again and again and again and again...

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Questions?

@k8monstrsCloset
kate@tellibrary.org