This has been a very illuminating thread, thanks! I read the LYT kit and after some friction, it finally clicked (I think) - MOC are to me like playlists in a music app or collections in Lightroom. This makes much more sense to my brain than the idea of maps, but that’s just me.
To use the structuralism example from above:
MOC - Structuralism would have everything I ever wrote about structuralism, including links to semiotics and, say Saussure.
Compiling a lower level MOC/playlist for ‘Lecture on Structuralism’ would look through the top one and link every that I could usefully incorporate into a 50 minute introductory lecture on structuralism plus related samples.
I personally wouldn’t structure them as nested MOCs or folders to avoid decision fatigue (does lecture on structuralism go under ‘lectures’, the course itself or ‘structuralism’?). I know it doesn’t really matter as I can find it later through the links, but I don’t want to have to maintain links in all sorts of directions…
Really enjoying thinking this stuff through, thanks for all the ideas!