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Welcome

Welcome to the Learning Lab Contextualised Content (LLCC) suite of open education resources, developed by educators and learning designers to support your lessons and your students. These engaging learning objects are intended to show the relevance of a wide range of foundation skills to learners’ everyday life.

Target audience

This content has been developed to engage and support learners who are

• Year 10-12 Secondary students
• Undergraduate students
• Foundation year students
• VET students
• Independent learners

About the content

The specific goal of this content is to place skills and knowledge into contextualised scenarios which learners can relate to and engage with. There is a strong focus on interpersonal, organisational, and higher-thinking skills, as well as industries and professions which require higher education qualifications. The primary aims of this work are to widen aspiration among pre-enrolment students, and to support the foundation skills of enrolled students.

All objects sit within a larger story, that of the Salty Creek Community Festival, and can be explored holistically by the learner. The objects in the book are divided into eight series that represent different festival planning areas (see below). However, each learning object (Pressbooks chapter) is also modular, meaning it can be used as an independent lesson or activity.

Each object is intended to show a skill or piece of knowledge within a context that learners can relate to. An object may present a question or scenario, or test the learner’s mastery of the knowledge or skill. Learners can then access links to tutorials which offer further depth or additional information on the topic.

In an online learning environment, this content can be shared with students via a direct link, brought into your own LMS, or copied into your platform of choice. In a non-digital environment, PDF versions of content and transcripts of interactive activities can be printed to use in class or as supplementary material.

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Series – Planning Areas

The learning objects have been grouped into ‘series’. These groupings are part of the overarching festival story, as each series represents a different festival planning area. This organisation choice has been made to enhance the storytelling aspect of the resource, while also reflecting the multidisciplinary focus and transferable nature of skills and knowledge in the real world.

These are the main series and the topics they cover:

1. Managing the Team and Event
   Event management, budgeting and marketing, communication and collaboration, writing and presentation skills, and online skills
2. Working with Volunteers and Contributors
   Nursing, art and design, maths, communication, writing, and critical thinking
3. Setting Up the Festival Site
   Engineering, maths, physics, event management, and art and design
4. Running a Sustainable Festival
   Event management, environmental issues, and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
5. Organising the Industry Booths (4 series)
   Career skills, engineering, economics, marketing, event management, writing, presenting, and a range of organisational and interpersonal skills.

Your role

How you use these resources will depend on your learning environment and the needs and interests of your students. Under your guidance and direction, students can engage with learning objects to complement the lessons they are currently undertaking or fill skills or knowledge gaps in foundation areas. You can use the objects as they are or adapt the language and activities to cater to the particular needs of your students.

The objects have been designed so that learners can complete them independently, but they can be easily adapted to suit pair or group work. There are ‘reflect’ questions in many objects, which can serve as transitions into collaborative activities and larger discussions.

How to use the learning objects:

As the learning objects in this suite of resources are modular, they can be packaged and used in multiple ways:

• An individual object can be taken to supplement a lesson.
• Objects can be packaged by subject or skill (e.g., marketing, maths, critical thinking) to supplement lessons and courses.
• Objects can be packaged by series to explore the multidisciplinary aspect of each planning area (e.g., learn skills related to setting up the festival, running a sustainable event).
• Objects can be packaged by character to show learners the tasks of a student or industry professional.
• Objects can be chosen in any order by students based on interest (a more relaxed and exploratory focus).

Example packaging of objects:

Search for objects by the following subjects or skills and knowledge:

Use the table below to search for learning objects which focus on a specific subject and/or skills and knowledge. You can sort each column of the table, or use the search bar to get a list of one category.