Course Creation at DataCamp: Welcome to DataCamp!

Want to learn more? Take the full course at https://learn.datacamp.com/courses/course-creation-at-datacamp at your own pace. More than a video, you'll learn hands-on coding & quickly apply skills to your daily work. --- Welcome to DataCamp! This course will equip you with tools and best practices to help you create an engaging and effective course on our platform. My name is Mari, the Head of Curriculum at DataCamp, and I'll help you get started! As with any good course, let's start with our learning objectives. By the end of this course, you'll have a clear understanding of our content creation process. This will include the various phases in the process, who you'll be working with at DataCamp during each phase, how long each phase will take, and the deliverables you are expected to complete per phase. You'll also be introduced to the various tools and workflows we use to ensure your course is designed as quickly and effectively as possible. Most importantly, you'll learn about the underlying pedagogical principles that make every DataCamp course a success and how to apply them to your own course. Every course we create at DataCamp follows the same process to ensure quality and efficiency. There are a total of three phases. In this lesson, we'll give you a quick overview of the three phases. You'll go into more detail in subsequent lessons. The first phase is course design. During this phase, you will work closely with a Curriculum Lead from DataCamp's Curriculum Team to "design" the contents of your course. Imagine your course as a house you want to build. You wouldn't start building the house without having a clearly-planned blueprint first, right? You'd need to ask yourself, "What materials do I need to build the house? Where will the entrance be? Will there be a second floor? How many bedrooms?" In this first phase, you'll build your course's blueprint. And just like the blueprint, you'll spend time creating a thoughtful, detailed outline of the con