Preparations
The goal behind this course was to enable students to understand how to use a home style espresso machine. In order to be able to do so students have to understand how coffee beans are processed specifically for espresso machines and thus need more background on types of coffee in general.
- Goal: be able to pull a shot on a domestic style espresso machine and make optimizations to improve the coffee extraction.
- Actions:
- Demonstrate knowledge on what makes espresso coffee to be of this specific type
- Pull a shot
- Improve on that shot
- Practice:
- Completing questions on history , types and origins
- Work with simple simulation to understand trade-off between variables
- Information:
- Background
- Variables: direct and indirect
- Dependencies & causalities
During the ID phase we focused on creating a very modest, three lesson, course where each segment has repeating elements (like introductions, summaries, etc) and learning stages. All was first lined out in a project planning environment to be able to make a good planning and overview of work that needed to be done.
During development we first created repeating slides and a style and captured this in a custom template. From here on out we started creating the course in a visually consistent and structured manner to meet the ID plan.