Project Objective
Conduct a course cohort on the same content as the 2023 cohort. Experiment applying learnings from the last cohort, with an aim to build a sustainable program the Training Team can continue to administer for Learners on Learn.
Project Overview
One of the Training Team’s goals this year is to run 1-2 outcome/project-based course cohorts. A course cohort is defined as a group of people who go through a learning journey at the same time. In 2023, the Training Team conducted a cohort where learners worked through the Course “Developing your first WordPress Block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.” on Learn. Participants gathered for a synchronous call each week where they could ask the instructor questions around the content they had worked through. The cohort received positive feedback from learners, but there were multiple takeaways in the administration of the cohort which are documented in this recap.
The aim of this project is to experiment applying the learnings from the last cohort, with the hopes of turning course cohorts into a sustainable educational offering on Learn. The project will use the same material as the last cohort, and will be offered to all applicants on the waiting list from the last cohort. All content will all be made available at the start of the cohort so that participants can move through content better at their own pace.
Project Members
@bsanevans (lead), @psykro (content instructor), @zoonini
Project Timeline
Start: May 1st, 2024
End: July 4th, 2024
- May 2nd – Reach out to applicants from the last cohort about joining this cohort. Applicants who respond are added to the cohort’s Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel as cohort participants.
- May 9th – Introductory message in Slack. Participants start working on course content.
- May 16th – Synchronous call #1, discussing previous week’s content.
- May 23rd – Synchronous call #2, discussing previous week’s content.
- May 30th – Synchronous call #3, discussing previous week’s content.
- June 6th – Synchronous call #4, discussing previous week’s content.
- June 13th – Synchronous call #5, discussing previous week’s content.
- June 20th – Synchronous call #6, cohort wrap-up.
- July 4th – Archive the cohort’s Slack account.
