- An initial draft of the guide was outlined by the editor with the help of generative AI for outlining using a knowledge model trained and augmented with the editor's works including Learning Engineering Toolkit chapters and generally accepted and accessible knowledge in the learning engineering community. The editor wrote, rewrote, and reviewed knowledge area and topic definitions in this first draft as a starting point for further development by the community of experts.
- The next step will be to develop a WiKi for community development and maintenance of the BOK Guide. The intent is to form a Steering Group representing various leaders representing communities of practice intended to benefit from the Guide to give insights into the needs of each of these communities and help direct the work to meet these needs. With this steering group we hope to develop Personas of Guide users and identify metrics for successfully meeting the needs of each persona.
- Once the WiKi is established, contributors will be able to suggest changes and additions. The community will be able to review the initial draft to identify potential gaps. Domain Expert Contributors and Knowledge Area Editors will propose edits to the initial draft topic descriptions and write additional topic and subtopic descriptions to fill perceived gaps.
- Reviewers will review the completed draft and provide suggestions for improvement.
- The Steering Group will review the draft against metrics for successfully meeting the needs of each persona.
- Domain Expert Contributors and Knowledge Area Editors will edit the completed draft based on suggestions from the Reviewer and Steering Group.
- The new edition of the Guide will be finalized for publication in three formats:
- A human-readable document
- A web ontology with a viewer to navigate from knowledge area to topic to sub-topic
- A machine-readable data graph with unique (URI) identifiers for each node.
- The intent is that the Guide should be iteratively improved through regularly scheduled review and update cycles that result in publication of new full editions at appropriate time intervals with vetted interim changes available on the Wiki.