H807 Module Blog for OU Course.
I’ll make this short as I really should be putting the finishing touches to TMA01 (which in turn requires me to have done a first draft, but that’s another story). I have had a small victory against the forces of darkness this week and wanted to share it. I have been a Virgin Media (formally… Read More Resistance isn’t futile
And another quick thought before I go back and start writing what I should be writing about – its all very well being able to put people into different groupings from innovator to laggard, but what use is it? Especially if it defines personal characteristics rather than environmental factors. If it does just define personal… Read More re Rogers
This might sound like a very strange start to a post about innovation, but reading the summary of Rogers the first things that came into my mind were the Tony Hill series of books by Val McDermid. Rogers descriptions of people read very much like psychological profiles, the only thing missing being the dead bodies… Read More Call me a laggard, but….
This case study follows the decision to move a course from a blended approach to a pure online course for those students who were unable to get to centres to participate. Key issues faced were those of connectivity of the participants, typically broadband describes a 125kb connection, with most users on dial-up. It also covers… Read More H807 – Jisc Case Studies – Online delivery of MSc Strategic Management in Africa
The task in hand is to summarise the JISC Case Study collection on tangible benefits of e-learning. Somehow this has to be done in 800 words (from a 200 page report). Not quite sure how the course team came up with 4 hours for this activity (ok, there are 5 hours for reading the report,… Read More H807 JISC Case Studies
It’s all a bit busy at the moment! Work is quite hectic – new phase of Workforce Support programme starting in six weeks (gulp) with all the associated online developmental activity behind that (including development of a VLE platform to support practitioners), halfway through development of a new video platform (I pitched it to colleagues… Read More H807 Starts here
Distant Ramblings on the Horizon 