CAPDM at 30: Ken Currie looks back

Thirty years of CAPDM 1996-2026

Ken looks back at the origins of CAPDM at the Edinburgh Business School 30 years ago, and how reusable what we learnt then has proved to be ever since.

Dynamic, AI-generated quick quizzes

Robots finding questions in a library

CAPDM and Artificial Intelligence Ltd can now enable students to generate their own personalised quizzes focused on a chosen part of a course.

An update on ChatGPT in Moodle

CAPDM and Artificial Intelligence Ltd. have developed a proof-of-concept demonstration integrating ChatGPT into CAPDM’s semantically structured course content.

Content strategists or e-learning developers?

As we exit this Covid panic period, when many of our institutions have had to all-too-rapidly respond to the need for online learning, I hope that they are now sitting back and thinking about their long-term strategies for pedagogies, learning materials and the cherishing of that all-important – and valuable – institutional intellectual property (IP). […]

Module Design Planning

Module development planners help with the management and development of the content required for a module, outlining the scale and scope of the authoring task ahead.

Pedagogic Design – Two Key Influences

Key pedagogic foundations - roman column illustration

It is easy to make the case for the use of Learning Objectives as the basis of designing and planning learning – particularly online learning, where the technology can make use of the extra context-data in innovative, meaningful and structured ways.

Develop Your Own Online Pedagogy

Developing your own online pedagogy is core

Many institutions are outsourcing this core capability to external, third-party commercial online programme managers in the dream of a quick and easy solution to it. Which approach do you think will best stand the test of time?

Rich Content vs Content Rich

The content for an online course should be semantically enabled, consistent and efficient to produce and maintain.