EDLC Education Development Lifecycle

Stage 4 of 10 · Design and release

Scaffold

Is the shape of the whole package right?

Purpose
Shape every deliverable as headings only.
Defining artefact
Skeletons of every deliverable
Exit gate
Structure approved
Failure it prevents
Rewriting finished content to fix its order

Scaffold shapes every deliverable as headings only: the learner guide, the assessment tool, the session plan, the trainer notes. Reviewers judge the shape of the whole package before anyone writes a paragraph.

What happens

  • Draft the skeleton of each deliverable: sections, sequence, where each task and activity sits.
  • Carry the mapping matrix into the skeletons, so each heading already knows which descriptors it serves.
  • Review the package as a whole for order, load and duplication.

At the gate, ask

  • Does the sequence build skills in an order a learner can follow?
  • Is any section serving no descriptor, or any descriptor without a section?
  • Would changing the order later mean rewriting finished content?