2022
We were awarded a Crown Commercial Service Framework contract for two services, Moodle hosting and cloud-based XML course production, under G-Cloud 13. We provided ongoing delivery support for Mac Keith Press courses in Childhood Neurology serving 38 countries.
2021
For Mac Keith Press we launched two EACCME® accredited courses in Childhood Neurology, for the University of the West of Scotland we provided continuing support for the MBA programme and updated online courses in Health, and we helped the University of Aberdeen to launch the new online Masters in Energy Economics and Finance.
2020
We developed a new online course for the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling at the University of St Andrews, and developed a new Diploma for Financial Advisers (DipFA®) course in Financial Services Regulation Ethics for Simply Academy.
2019
We began working with Mac Keith Press to develop innovative online learning for highly specialised medical training courses, developed more accessible course outputs for the University of London, and helped the University of Aberdeen to launch a new diploma in Petroleum Engineering, Economics and Finance.
2018
For Simply Academy we renewed the CeMAP and CMACert programmes and developed a new CeRER programme. For the University of Aberdeen we delivered an initial pilot postgraduate course and won the tender to produce 20 more online courses for the university.
Don’t let your choice of LMS compromise your learning strategy
February 2018 – CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM Thinking Try before you buy… Dear Reader, Don’t let your choice of LMS compromise your learning strategy One of the many online learning messages that hit my inbox this week suggested trying an LMS before buying. Obvious, surely? Do institutions really commit to a learning management system (LMS) on […]
Institutions & Textbooks
January 2018 – CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM Thinking Institutions & Textbooks Dear Reader, Use of OER textbook now equal to commercial textbook in some US courses Open Education Resources – OERs are a bit hit or miss, but there are now some very mature and valuable resources out there. While UK institutions are cautious about using […]
Amazon flavoured learning services + The Millennials strike back
December 2017 CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM Thinking Amazon flavoured learning services + The Millennials strike back Dear Reader, Amazon flavoured learning services Just at the end of November this year, Amazon snuck out a bunch of new Web-service technology ‘announcements‘ of potential interest to Education. There were some useful tools like Transcribe, an automatic speech translation […]
Strategic Education
November 2017 CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM Opinion Strategic Education Dear Reader, Eduventures recently pointed out, two of the biggest for-profit online education providers in the USA, Capella Education and Strayer Education, are planning to merge under the new company name “Strategic Education”. Both organisations have lately out-performed their peers in the challenging US for-profit online education […]
Delivering On The Promises Of Online Education
October 2017 CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM Opinion Delivering on the promises of online education Dear Reader, We have recently been invited to three different HE institutions to present our offering in online program management (OPM) services. It’s certainly a phrase that has penetrated UK Higher Education institutions, helping to describe how they might obtain third-party help […]