Built Intelligence Educational Standard

Courses on Built Intelligence are required to meet our minimum standards for educational quality.

These standards include:

Courses must be between 10-30 minutes in duration, to allow them to be easily digestible.
Courses must include course learning objectives at the start of the course, to frame the content for the user.
Courses must follow the plain English guidelines available here: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/.
Courses must include 2 task-based exercises per courses to reinforce learning.
Courses must include a course review with a minimum of 10 multiple choice questions which relate to the subject matter of the course and assess user’s learning.
Content must be produced by the Contributor, rather than pulled from other sites or through Google searches.
Courses must provide users with sufficient information to adequately complete the course review and exercises or tasks.
Courses must be honest and clearly presented. Courses cannot mislead people or misrepresent claims, make insubstantial claims or offer guarantees for users.

Course review multiple choice questions should ideally have 4 answers with 1 correct answer or “all the above” as an option.
Course should ideally include resources in the form of templates, forms or widgets to assist user in carrying out tasks on the job.
Courses should ideally explain the content from a user’s perspective rather than explain it from an academic or legalistic perspective.
Courses should ideally include stories or practical tips or common pitfalls in the form of quotes form the Contributor, to allow users to learn from peers.
Courses should ideally include 10 flashcards to allow the users to refresh their knowledge before the course review.

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