expert support for your distance and
blended learning programmes
Building and managing a full and effective learning programme has to be a team effort. Harnessing the skills and expertise of an organisation such as CAPDM makes sound commercial sense - but you will also need to involve many people from within your own organisation.
We understand the challenges that each of your team members face and can work closely with them to help bring new projects into operation in the most effective way possible.
Here are some ways we can help your team with particular roles and responsibilities:
We can work with subject experts to help them use their time and expertise efficiently and effectively - structuring their inputs within the agreed pedagogical model, keeping everything consistent and complete in the process.
Our experience of diversity and standards (including XML related technologies) and our range of tools to manage and render content allows the instructional designer and the learning technologist to concentrate on value added development - knowing that they are building on a solid yet innovative foundation.
Our formal approaches to information architectures and asset management fit well with an institution's quality enhancement plans. Our automated batch production technologies generate professional-quality sets of learning materials consistently. Our integrated support for translation and localisation enables the application of these materials globally and consistently.
CAPDM has always adopted a holistic view of programme development. Our experience across the full range of activities can relieve faculty management of all tasks that would otherwise hinder progress, and can help to catalyse change.
CAPDM's ability to work with formal information structures is a great benefit to ‘knowledge institutions’. These skills can be applied to library functions such as asset capture and electronic archiving - aligning well with the knowledge management strategy of an institution.
All our texts are single-source mastered in XML and we have well established batch production routes from XML to print and functionally rich PDF and HTML outputs. We can produce highly innovative texts and domains of published materials - carefully managed and, where necessary, augmented over a number of years.
We conduct programme production to support four business development areas - business model, pedagogical model, production and operations (including administration). We can help co-ordinate these to meet specific custom needs.
Tutors need to know how well their students are coping with the demands of their studies. CAPDM's embeddable assessment technologies, whether embedded for use in commercial VLEs or in custom open-source tutoring environments like Moodle, fulfil this range of process support needs without being overpowering.
CAPDM has designed and implemented many customised assessment services for clients - allowing extremely flexible and complex question types to be included, if desired. Ideally, our designs are integrated into the fabric of course design, particularly with respect to the use of key learning objectives. Coupling assessment to learning objectives results in assessment engines that give detailed progress feedback to students (which they value highly) and provides feedback to student assessors on how their students are performing.
