What do you want your modules to look like?:
What do you want your modules to look like? Academics now have more direct control!
Module Style
Up-front development
and/ or
Developed, or added to, on-the-fly in response to perceived student need.
Using material as a resource bank or as a linear structure
Active engagement
through online student-student-tutor communications and discourse
through human-computer interactivity
A textbook online – not recommended!!
How might your module be developed?:
How might your module be developed? Material developed and uploaded directly by academic without any support from CEDM
i.e. as PowerPoint and Word files
not ideal as navigation through them is not ideal on the web
Some developed exclusively by academics as web packages using CourseGenie
Some developed collaboratively with CEDM teams as web packages using CourseGenie
Some delivered to IMU as one big Word file for conversion into one big web package
Think about your expected students:
Think about your expected students
For distance learning students one of their greatest difficulties is isolation
Can this be reduced technologically?
Socially but more importantly for learning
Play to the strengths of the technology:
Play to the strengths of the technology Use graphics, images, animations and video
to convey information or make information more understandable
Look to design meaningful HC interactivities
Ask 'what thinking is promoted by that particular interactivity?’
Use structured documentation and 'chunking' to simplify online reading
Make the objective of each element as explicit as possible
and its relationship to assessment
Use the web to deliver long textual elements
but recognise, even advise, that they are printed off and read