Jo Coldwell, Associate Head (Teaching and Learning) in the School of Information Technology at Deakin University in Australia talks about an initiative led by her colleague Annegret Goold to develop a parallel virtual organisation called United Enterprises. Students have to apply for jobs at this virtual organisation and then take the role of an [...]
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In the first of a series of podcasts about learning innovations, I interview Mike Richards, course chair of a new OU course planned for Autumn 2010: “My Digital Life”. This innovative course teaches programming principles without students having to type in any code – instead they use a drag and drop environment developed at [...]
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On a lunchtime stroll along the riverside today, Gráinne Conole was bombarding me with her latest thoughts on Cloudworks, her JISC-funded project which enables you “to find other people’s learning and teaching ideas, designs and experiences as well as sharing your own”. She is planning to extend the system to allow course teams to [...]
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