What you will study
As a current or potential innovator in elearning this module invites you to think about and discuss what constitutes true innovation in this area and to consider why some innovations are adopted more readily than others. You will gain the skills to become a pedagogical professional in the use of innovative technologies for learning.
The learning design approach used empowers you as an educational practitioner to make informed use of the resources at your disposal to create effective innovative learning experiences. You will work in groups on a learning design project of your choice, and construct a website to present your project.
One of the latest online developments in openness is teaching through a massive open online course (MOOC). You will gain direct experience of working within a MOOC and the experience will help you to gain new skills and a deeper understanding of open educational resources.
You will engage with a number of cutting edge issues surrounding the use of innovative technologies. These include such topics as the use of open educational resources, learning design and the ethics of using learning analytics You will develop specific elearning skills including online group moderation and elearning activity design, conduct small-scale investigations, and use case studies, with the overall aim of incorporation or rethinking elearning activity into your own professional context.
Studying this module you will be part of a lively international community of students who will be sharing their experiences in different cultural contexts. Although H817 is based largely on research, practice and elearning in the UK, the field of learning is an international one, and we recognise the immense value that global participants can bring to the dialogue around elearning innovations.
The tuition and support provided will encourage you to participate in H817’s learning groups and to develop your independent skills in finding and evaluating information, software tools, practitioner accounts and research papers. You will be encouraged to relate these to your own practice.
You will learn
The learning outcomes for this module are available here