EdVee – A course design tool

EdVee as a module design and diagnostic Tool

Teams of people are increasingly involved in the creation of online courses. 

Members of the team develop and implement a design over time, often across separate locations and organisations.  This is creating a need for tools to support sharing across the team that  enable the visualisation of ideas at  early conceptual stages of the design process and support exploration of pedagogical design issues.   EdVee draws on developments in design science, systems engineering and design thinking to provide a design and diagnostic tool. As such EdVee is valuable for prototyping early course concepts. 

The tool was created to support early prototyping and collaboration during a course of module design process and was developed by myself and Professor Alison McKay.  Below is a link to our paper in Teaching and Learning Inquiry

Click here to Link to “EdVee: A Visual Diagnostic and Course Design Tool for Constructive Alignment”

EdVee supports innovation through the sharing and visualisation of constructive alignment of learning outcomes, content, learning activities and assessment. EdVee  is unique as it maps the alignment of multiple elements of curriculum design in one tool.

Click on the images to link to the 2023 Journal paper in Teaching and Learning Inquiry

EdVee has been carefully positioned within current developments in course design frameworks so can be used alongside them.  In contrast to a ‘storyboard’ or ‘swim lane’ type visualisations,  EdVee supports the analysis of thinking prior to, and in addition to, the temporal sequencing of a module’s construction so is very useful as a collaboration tool particularly for developing a dialogue across a team during early pedagogical discussions. There is a short video at the bottom of the page which explains its use and application.

To support the use of EdVee as a design or diagnostic tool, you can download a blank word template below which comes in a standard  A3 size or larger A2 size for more complex modules.  The word document has spaces to add all the elements of the course and moveable connection lines to highlight alignment.