This page provides you with the details that you will need to participate in the "FreshBrain Design Your Own Content Scholarship."
It includes an overview of Learning Paths, what they are for, how they are structured and what we need from you as you create one. This is followed by a number of examples that exist on the site today.
Good Luck!
Learning Paths
Learning Paths are a series of Activities that will help a FreshBrain user to gain significant knowledge in an area of technology . They are typically structured in such a way that each Activity can be completed alone or as part of the learning path. And they often include a Challenge Activity - or an activity that offers up a challenge that will require the skills that have been gained, but expects that the user will go beyond in some way to participate in the challenge.
A Learning Path should take roughly 10 - 20 hours to complete. This number varies based on the experience of the user, but should be used as a guideline. Based on this, each Activity should take between 1/2 and 2 hours to complete. Thus there should be between 5 and 9 Activities that make up the Learning Path.
Note: the Challenge Activity should not be counted into these numbers.
The structure of the Learning Path and Activities are as follows.
The Learning Path requires:
| Title: | ||
| Simple Description: | [two or three sentences, marketing like] | |
| Graphic (optional): | [non copyrighted graphic, represents the Learning Path] | |
| Detailed Description: | [couple of paragraphs with more details than the simple description] | |
| List of Skills Gained: | [list of 3 to 10 skills that will be gained upon completion] |
Each Activity requires:
| Title: | ||
| Graphic (optional): | [non copyrighted graphic, represents the Activity] | |
| Difficulty: | [Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard] | |
| Description: | [short description of the Activity] | |
| Basic Steps: | [the steps required to complete the Activity] | |
| Suggested Tools: | [pick from the Tools list on FreshBrain or suggest your own free tool] | |
| Related Links: | [list of links related to the Activity] | |
| Related Videos: | [from YouTube for example] | |
| Upload Type(s): | [types of file(s) to be uploaded upon completion of activity] |
Templates
Here are templates to help you get started. You can use these, fill them out and submit.
- Learning Path Template (Text)
- Learning Path Template (Open Office)
- Learning Path Template (Microsoft Word)
Examples
The best example of what we are looking for is the new (yet to be released) Robotics Learning Path. Take a look.
Be sure to look at the Details and Activities tabs.
 | Robotics using RoboMind (for Non Developers) |
We also created a number of learning paths for our Virtual Summer Technology Camp. These are also good examples.
