Making clicks count & putting IT into place.
Picture the instructional designer. Putting together a course home page on the institutional LMS. How do you want to “dress” this page? To impress? Do we reflect the department or faculty “brand”. Do we watch the intended user, noticing how they interact with the page, and then make changes. Do we make the interface intuitive …
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A few years ago, while scrolling through Twitter, I saw a link to an application to be mentored in the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) programme. I’d created many online and digital resources, but my efforts were often solitary and conversations around the work were limited to individual “client” updates. Work felt insular …
A bit of background The Fundamentals of Avocado Production is an online course that I put together for AgriColleges. The course was designed as a proof of concept of a constructivist and mobile friendly course. The course is intended for remote students (usually drawn from the agricultural sector) and takes an active approach to learning. …
I’ve put together a “Design Thinking and the LMS” Workshop to introduce you to the design thinking process. Design thinking is a human-centered approach to solving problems using the tools of design to gather inspiration, build empathy, and create your solution. The design thinking approach and its mindset can help teachers and academics to solve …
The resources below are a collection of self authored resources, intended for use in a course development workshop. They are platform agnostic, and are intended for an active, discussion rich workshop, where the different role-players who have to work together to make better use of the LMS, can explore the environment and express themselves. Role …
The escalator workflow I’m comfortable using the escalator metaphor to picture the e-learning course production journey. From planning to evaluation, this moving stairway moves a course development team from start to finish between floors using a gentle set of hydraulic steps. I’m the handrail, keeping the team riding safely riding along their vertical journey. Descent …
My girls and I attended the opening of the Goethe Institut’s newly refurbished Library – Gamebox – Hub last Saturday (29 July). The space is as beautiful as it ever was with books, magazines, films, music and children’s literature in different languages. But as the name implies, the existing library has two new additions. The first is a …
Book Dash aims to gather creative teams together to write, illustrate, edit and produce a children’s story, in 12 hours. These stories are licensed as creative commons works, which means that anyone can print and distribute these beautiful children’s books, for free. The intention is that the books get into the hands of those who …
The word MOOC is an acronym for Massive Open Online Course. The term emerged in 2008 for a particular type of e-learning activity that was intended to integrate “the connectivity of social networking, the facilitation of an acknowledged expert in a field of study, and a collection of freely accessible online resources” (McAuley et al …
In a world where an estimated 90% of email is spam it’s irresponsible for universities to hand out free email addresses to those trying to climb out of the digital donga. So, as a service to my pre-service PGCE teachers, an addition to your student diary.