DDD Project, IIT Delhi

Category:

UX, Curriculum Design

Role:

UX Researcher, Curriculum Designer

Duration:

8 Weeks

Client:

Divine Labs, IIT Delhi

Stake Holders:

BCG. The Education Alliance, Punjab Government, IIT Delhi

Developed a comprehensive curriculum for a Design, Development, and Digital Marketing course, set to launch in over 50 Punjab government schools by 2025, with plans to expand to 19,000+ schools. Curated industry-relevant content, preparing 1,000+ students with essential digital skills.

Design a Curriculum to make students industry ready

The goal of this project is to equip students with industry-ready skills in design, development, and digital marketing through a comprehensive curriculum. It aims to provide accessible and engaging learning experiences, using cognitive load theory to enhance content retention. By aligning with educational standards and collaborating with key stakeholders, the project seeks to create a strong foundation for digital education in the region.

Stake Holders

  • Students

  • Teachers

  • Punjab Government

  • BCG (Boston Consulting Group)

  • The Education Alliance

  • Curriculum Designers and Developers

Meet the students

Problems

Information Retention Problem: Ensuring that students retain key concepts over time by designing content that is memorable and easy to understand.


Cognitive Load Reduction: Simplifying complex information to avoid overwhelming students, allowing them to focus on core learning objectives.

Challenges

Lack of Resources and Devices: Limited access to digital tools in schools hindered effective delivery of the curriculum.


Difficulty in Visualization: Students struggled to visualize concepts, even basic terms like "journal," affecting comprehension.

Curriculum Mapping

Pedagogical Model

See - Do - Reflect

Content (See)

  1. Diverging

    Listing Down topics to be taught related to the competencies and learning outcomes


  1. Converging

    Deciding Flow for the topics with Card Sorting


  1. Diverging

    Content generation for the topics listed down according the finalized flow


  1. Converging

    Discussions on content selection and proofreading.

Components (See)

The book comprises of various components which each carry their own function. These components include -


  • Questions

  • Narrations

  • Tasks

  • Tutorials

  • See Box

  • Did you Know

  • Reflection

  • Keywords

  • Recap

  • Key terminologies

Questions

These are used to explain key concepts


Narrations

These are added so that the students can relate to these characters and also to clear their confusion about certain parts which can't be explained through questions

Tutorials

To show how a certain task is done on screen through images, instructions and annotations


See Box

To show additional information that may not fit into a question but is important for the student to know

Key words

Explaining the meaning of difficult words and terms without disrupting the flow of the question.


Did you know

To generate interest and to give them fun facts about what they are studying. This section is also used to show the importance of what they are studying by showing relevant facts

Visualisation (See)

Components (Do)

Tasks and Activities

These are added so that the students practice what they just learnt through these tasks

Crafts

Due to lack of devices and to introduce hands on learning, many crafts and activities are included so that students can understand these concepts even without a device

Reflect

Reflections -

  • Summarizing what they learnt in the chapters

  • Industry relevance of these topics

  • Importance of what they learnt

Slide Decks - Presentation, Teachers manual

Purpose of slide decks is to train the teachers and so that they can prepare these topics before the class

The slide decks also provide lesson plans to show how many hours and classes each of these topics should take.

The slide decks are also presented on the class projector so that students can see the information broken down into smaller steps in each of the slides. Animations in the slides also help retain attention

Conclusion

Through this project, I learned the importance of creating accessible content that resonates with diverse learners. I gained a deeper appreciation for the power of collaboration in overcoming educational challenges.