Tag Archives: e-learning

From Experience to Theory (Part One)

Posted on 29th January 2021 by Jennie Slade

By Haider Ali In the first article of a series, we will look at one of the methods we have used with a course presented on the FutureLearn platform in order to address the twin challenges of making management education … Continue reading →

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How do I solve the world’s problems from my desk?

Posted on 24th November 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Jessica Giles In the face of some of the world’s seemingly intractable global problems, it can be easy to feel disempowered and disengaged. Even identifying or prioritising a particular global crisis to engage with can be a challenge. We … Continue reading →

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I want my weekend back!

Posted on 8th October 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Haider Ali Face to face residential schools are core to a number of Open University modules, but this does involve sacrifices: One of them being a complete loss of a weekend, while they go away to a residential school, … Continue reading →

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Creating Emergency Remote Learning Environments in Response to COVID-19

Posted on 30th September 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Michael Ngoasong The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is a nightmare for universities and businesses world-wide. Universities are turning to online remote teaching (Jack. A. and Moules, J. 2020) and requiring staff to work from home. Some of us … Continue reading →

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Can we teach skills online?

Posted on 15th July 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Lin Smith As lecturers we can lecture, can’t we? Have our online students acquired key skills for success? We design the assessment, so we think we assess what we have taught and what we expect them to have acquired. … Continue reading →

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Designing Online Learning for Interactivity

Posted on 8th June 2020 by Kate Bunker

by Dr Ruslan Ramanau A key question facing teachers and institutions that move their teaching online (be it fully or partially), is whether reducing the amount of face-to-face contact can lead to less engagement from learners, and less positive learning … Continue reading →

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Online teaching: starting out. My Story

Posted on 29th April 2020 by Kate Bunker

by Dr Jacqueline Baxter The recent COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown has meant that many teachers at all phases of learning have had to very rapidly get to grips with teaching online. But teaching online is not something that comes … Continue reading →

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