Taking off like SpaceX?
If higher education is to learn just one thing from SpaceX then that has to be reusability.
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Module Design Planning
Module development planners help with the management and development of the content required for a module, outlining the scale and scope of the authoring task ahead.
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There is one problem with learning to do it yourself in-house and that is “semantic erosion”.
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The £100 million+ revenues generated by those early online management programmes was money better kept by the university.
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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"Pedagogic Design – Two Key Influences
It is easy to make the case for the use of Learning Objectives as the basis of designing and planning learning – particularly online learning, where the technology can make use of the extra context-data in innovative, meaningful and structured ways.
Read more "Pedagogic Design – Two Key Influences"Develop Your Own Online Pedagogy
Many institutions are outsourcing this core capability to external, third-party commercial online programme managers in the dream of a quick and easy solution to it. Which approach do you think will best stand the test of time?
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The content for an online course should be semantically enabled, consistent and efficient to produce and maintain.
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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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