The future is digital, but still some way off

November Issue CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM?Discussion The future is digital, but still some way off Dear Reader, Last week I was in Hong Kong, where everyone on the metro and buses seemed to be glued to their mobile device screens, and to a level above what I see daily on my commute to work in Edinburgh. […]

eLearning in Higher Education – A Quality Assurance Free Zone?

October?Issue CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM?Discussion eLearning in Higher Education – A Quality Assurance Free Zone? Dear Reader, Sometimes when you read the words of an industry commentator you come across statements that absolutely chime with your own experience. Such was the case when we read this article in ?Higher Education Management? – a strategy and innovation […]

Personalised Learning… Or Not?

September Issue CAPDM Newsletter CAPDM Strength Personalising Learning Dear Reader, CAPDM has been promoting and developing online education for over 20 years. At the heart of everything we do is a richness of content, and mechanisms for feedback and personalisation of delivery. You can see how we approach this cognitive richness and personalisation in this?Look.Book?publication. […]

Recreating the Future

Dear Reader, Recreating the Future The Sermon on the Mount was an exercise in moral teaching, not online learning, but it contained many a lesson relevant to today. Recall the parable of the ?The Wise and Foolish Builders? (Matthew 7:24-26) ?Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like […]

Enabling Global Reach in a University

Dear Reader, Enabling Global Reach in a University Though it has been said many times before, it now seems appropriate to be saying ?Higher Education has entered a period of significant change?. ?This change, when combined with the opportunities generated by new digital technologies, new standards of professionalism and?competitiveness, has seen many universities considering expansion […]

UK Higher Education as the Global Brand?

Dear Reader, UK Higher Education as the Global Brand? We recently came across an?interesting Washington Post article?from the US about the need to embrace the opportunities of online education, and warning about the potential threat that it may pose. It sounded familiar, in fact very like a publication from a UK project I worked on […]

The Great Next UK Export – Higher Education?

The great next UK export – higher education? Dear Reader, Changes that impact Higher Education are sometimes predicted or planned. Two recent developments might suggest that development of online distance programmes and businesses within universities might become a more serious focus for all. First, have you read ‘College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education’ […]

Using Moodle?

Using Moodle? ?Dear Reader, Many universities now use Moodle to deliver their online courses and to support students both on-campus and at a distance. Moodle has been a particular focus for CAPDM, and we have tailored our content management and production environment to deliver highly functional and integrated courses into Moodle. We have generated […]

ALFA – Adaptive Learning For All

Dear Reader, Over the years CAPDM has developed many widely-used Moodle modules ? for reflective portfolios, topic object tracking and student profiling, for example.? Today we can announce ? and offer to all ? a fully worked methodology and Moodle implementation of an Adaptive Learning system. We call it?ALFA ? Adaptive Learning For All, and […]

Integrating Publishers Texts

Dear Reader, Integrating publisher texts, OERs and own IP for online delivery Most campus-based courses are linked to a recommended text, usually from one of the major publishers.? As universities and colleges make the transition to online delivery, particularly for an international market, this paper-based text becomes less convenient though the content is still very […]