Our online learners told us that their discussion forms were “dead spaces” and had “no value”. In this post I will explore how this may have happened and ask if there is anything we can do about it.
Our reading group considers the latest Jisc briefing on the digital experiences of international students, and how this impacts their engagement in fully online distance learning programmes.
We’ve been providing distance education for over 100 years and we do this at scale, but designing good online learning is challenging. In pursuit of a solution we are proud to introduce the CAFE Model: a streamlined approach to learning design that emphasises the essential elements of what it takes to learn.
What makes a good educational video? Does this align with what students like? What does this tell us? We will explore this in more detail in this month’s digital education reading group.
In less than two years we have seen incredible changes in the possibilities provided by GenAI. It promises increased creativity and efficiency, better quality work and even improved health outcomes. But, at the same time, there are concerns about its misuse, job losses, exploitation, disregard for intellectual property and its impact on human rights and democracy.
Producing accessible and editable resources for online maths and science subjects using Mathpix
This month the digital education reading group discusses the importance of online identity for online learners, and how we might foster online learning community ecosystems.
In our first meeting of 2024, the digital education reading group will discuss the evolving face of open educational resources (OER). Michael Davis is our curator this month and has prepared the following for us.
This year marks 10 years since we launched our first MOOC on the Coursera platform! In this post, we take a look at what we did and the impact it’s had on our learners.
This month we’re meeting to discuss the future of education. This question is not new. People have been asking this over the past century or so as society and technology evolves. So, post-pandemic and amid a generative AI revolution, we take our turn to discuss this.