How to digitally transform a university
If you want to digitally transform your institution, you need top-level administration representation and decision-making empowerment
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Wiley’s 2022 “Voice of the Online Learner” survey – my conclusions
The convenience of asynchronous online learning is now recognised, and is being selected by most US students for some part of their studies.
Read more "Wiley’s 2022 “Voice of the Online Learner” survey – my conclusions"The Perceived Barriers to Online Learning Have Changed
Universities must be strategic about investing in online learning infrastructure
Read more "The Perceived Barriers to Online Learning Have Changed"Taking off like SpaceX?
If higher education is to learn just one thing from SpaceX then that has to be reusability.
Read more "Taking off like SpaceX?"“Grow on your own terms and remember why you did”
There is one problem with learning to do it yourself in-house and that is “semantic erosion”.
Read more "“Grow on your own terms and remember why you did”"Choosing your online education strategy
The £100 million+ revenues generated by those early online management programmes was money better kept by the university.
Read more "Choosing your online education strategy"Course Design Onions
Developing courses within a learning environment, with the inevitable result that the resulting online pedagogy is restricted to what the platform supports, is not what is desired.
Read more "Course Design Onions"Quick! How do we put this course online?
If you’re at all involved in higher or further education, in the last couple of weeks you’ll have heard the above question being asked numerous times and with increasing urgency. You may well have asked it yourself. The COVID-19 pandemic has meant face-to-face teaching needing to be replaced with online delivery, and from a standing […]
Read more "Quick! How do we put this course online?"Keith Lumsden – an appreciation
Professor Keith Lumsden, founder and Academic Director of the Edinburgh Business School, has passed away at the age of 84. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, he went to Stanford University in California on a scholarship in 1959 and stayed to complete research into programmed learning techniques in higher education. Some of the most […]
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CAPDM has been awarded new work to improve the generation of more accessible distance learning course materials for the University of London. Focusing on applying changes required by the latest WCAG 2.1 standard, which covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible, the goal is to make content more accessible to […]
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