{"id":20457,"date":"2025-06-08T22:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4tc21\/?page_id=20457"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:49:26","slug":"ds4tc21-platform","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4tc21\/learning-pathways\/establish-a-ple\/ds4tc21-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"DS4TC21 platform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe Digital Skills for Teaching in the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/b> course uses the Internet as the learning platform rather than delivering courses via single application like a learning management system.\n<\/p>\n

Learners interact and communicate using a variety of different online technologies which are aggregated together using a live course feed.\n<\/p>\n

An open component-based learning environment<\/span><\/h2>\n

The DS4TC21 learning materials are published on an open website (we use WordPress<\/a>, an open source content management system). Yes, DS4TC21 materials are truly open because you do not require a password to access any of the learning resources used for our courses. Our learner interactions use component tools distributed across the Internet, rather than contained within a single application.\n<\/p>\n

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The following table provides a summary of the open source websites we will be using. We recommend you bookmark the URLs so they will be easy to find.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Open source platform\n<\/th>\nURL and purpose\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
WordPress\n<\/td>\n\n

https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4tc21\/<\/a>
\nPurpose<\/b>
\nCourse website where you can access all the learning materials\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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(You must log in on the course site to post notes)\n<\/td>\n		\n

https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/ds4tc21\/interactions\/course-feed\/<\/a>
\nPurpose<\/b>
\nShare ideas and thoughts when prompted in the learning materials as short comments on the course site which appear on the course feed page.
\nPosts are limited to 300 characters – so keep comments short.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Mastodon\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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https:\/\/mastodon.oeru.org\/deck\/tags\/DS4TC21<\/a>
\nPurpose<\/b>
\nSocial media site for the course (similar to Twitter, but a decentralised open source alternative.)
\nIt allows posts of up to 500 characters.
\nInclude the “#DS4TC21” hashtag in the body text if you want your mention harvested for the course feed page.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Discourse\n<\/td>\n\n

https:\/\/forums.oeru.org\/<\/a>
\nPurpose<\/b>
\nCourse discussion forums used for longer posts.
\nSearch for the DS4TC21<\/a> tag on the forum site for all course discussions.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Moodle\n<\/td>\n\n

https:\/\/moodle.oeru.org\/course\/view.php?id=66<\/a>
\nPurpose<\/b>
\nLearning management system used to:\n<\/p>\n