Design and development: overview

The documents described on this page relate to project management, quality assurance and contractual frameworks and systems.

More detailed information is available on the Design of learning objects and Development of learning objects pages.

Diagram of the design and development process for learning objects

Published: June 2007

This diagram outlines the quality assurance workflow for learning objects.

• Diagram of the design and development process for learning objects (pdf, 142kB)

Project management framework

Published: June 2007
Audience: project managers.

This document provides an overview of the management systems for the design and development of online curriculum content. It also creates a context for the documentation relating to particular stages in a project.

It is organised under three headings:

• production process: systems for establishing a project, requesting and evaluating tenders and selecting suppliers, developing content and releasing the objects to educational jurisdictions;
• methodology: principles of user-centred educational design and features of TLF learning objects;
• consultative process: the groups that provide quality assurance advice during production, the functions and management of the groups and the criteria for selecting personnel for the groups.

• Project management framework (pdf, 144kB)

Quality assurance framework for online content development

Published: June 2007
Audience: those responsible for establishing and maintaining quality assurance processes.

This document covers the design, development, delivery and maintenance of online content. It also creates a context for quality assurance documentation for accessibility, rights, intellectual property, technical specifications, metadata and editorial guides, and the rationale and methodology for in-school evaluations.

It presents the framework under three headings: quality control, implementing the quality assurance framework and content procurement.

• Quality assurance framework for online content development (pdf, 307kB)