Founding Ideals

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Goals

• Create a simple and expressive form of HTML for education as webcomponents
• Ability for lay person to copy and paste simple lines of html that have pedagogical implications
• Create a simple design language for expressing education concepts

Guiding Principles

• Design is abstracted from Instruction
• Accessibility, elements should be to the highest degrees of accessibility
• Readability at a glance, elements should be able to be understood by looking at them
• Instruction will use Design & have a default method of visualization
• This should work for visually communicating a course on a completely static html page
• Stay at the molecule / organism level (instructionally). Example: Assignment, Term
• Simple naming convention to allow for more to be added easily
• 0 hierarchy connotation in tags (for example: lrn-assignment not lrn-instruction-assignment)
• Stick to stock webcomponents capabilities as much as possible when creating design components

Who is this for

• Students to have a cohesive visual experience across solutions
• Instructors to have simple, readable HTML when they want to wade into it
• Instructional Designers to have expressive HTML to help meet course objectives
• Developers to reduce time to produce common design specifications and ontologies in the development of applications for learning
• Anyone that knows HTML: To make a resource that can communicate concepts of learning

Guiding Questions

• How are we making life easier for faculty with this?
• How are we making life easier for instructional designers with this?
• How are we making students cognitive load lower with this decision?

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Related to the other; these are from some of the notes I took / other ideas I had when getting this down. Almost like simple "This is why this is a thing and how you should be able to use it" documents

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https://github.com/webcomponents/gold-standard/wiki love this idea. This is the gold standard of webcomponents which are the things to take into account when building components. This would be great to extend to include rules for creating quality educational components