Free / Open for Education Scotland - Business Critical Areas
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Derrin Kent, TDM Ltd. Derrin Kent Managing Director of TDM Ltd. + Author of Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide + Credited Reviewer of both Moodle Administration and Moodle Teaching Techniques + LSIS IfL RDF Research Development Fellow 2010-2011 T: 01299 405719 @tdm_tweets Thomas Bell Instructional Designer at TDM Ltd. + Author of 10 Business Critical Areas Open Courses + LSIS Sustainability Sector Reference Group Member + LMS Programme Coordinator + ICT Professional Trainer
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Presentation for Open For Education conference on 20th May 2011 in Edinburgh.www.tdm.infowww.wyreacademy.com
Transcript of Free / Open for Education Scotland - Business Critical Areas
Derrin Kent, TDM Ltd.Derrin KentManaging Director of TDM Ltd.+ Author of Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide+ Credited Reviewer of both Moodle Administration and Moodle Teaching Techniques+ LSIS IfL RDF Research Development Fellow 2010-2011
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Thomas BellInstructional Designer at TDM Ltd. + Author of 10 Business Critical Areas Open Courses + LSIS Sustainability Sector Reference Group Member + LMS Programme Coordinator + ICT Professional Trainer
LMS or VLE?
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The 10 Business Critical AreasWhat are the Business Critical
Areas?
The old LSC-WM + AWM RDA arrived at the core focus areas as a consequence of two phase
research amongst employers in the region;
Phase I: Skills requirements in WM businesses.
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Guess the 10 Business Critical Areas?
The 10 Business Critical Areas
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1. Business Improvement Techniques2. Business Systems / Processes3. Teamworking / Communication4. Customer Service5. Sales & Marketing6. IT User7. New Product Design8. Finance & Credit9. Cashflow & Profit Management10. Risk Management
Open Courses for Business Critical Areas
Create 10 reusable, re-mixable Xerte objects – embedded within 10 reusable, re-mixable Moodle courses
Actively engage Subject Matter Experts in the design process
Distribute those open resources to providers, for free, from multiple websites and regional hubs...
...with the intention of improving social constructivist approaches to digitally-blended WBL delivery amongst the FE sector
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The Aims:
Freely editable & fully reusableOnline Teaching & Learning Materials
These materials are Free “Libre” as in “Freedom” as well as Free “Gratis” as in “Free Dinner”.
Take the material, localise it, modernise it, personalise it, extend and supplement it with your own stuff ...and please give back / pass on to others whatever you produce from it.
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Welcoming & Motivating Instruction
Instructional images and icons to guide learners eyes
to
important content
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Open Courses for Business Critical Areas
Courses based on Distance e-Learning models and approaches from Gilly Salmon (University of Leicester):
5 stage model e-Moderating and E-tivities Great books!
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Social Learning
Online social activities attempt to:
get learners to construct learning with supervision
Support face-to-face training with thoughtful discussion areas
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Social Learning
Social Learning through: Moodle Forums Moderated discussion space Moodle WIKIs Moodle Glossary Moodle Chat
Additionally...
Videos Subject Matter Experts: Over 40 videos on the 10 Business Critical Areas topics
With comprehensible/animated presentations from subject matter experts
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Scoping in Design
Never underestimate the time spent on scoping and design work with SMEs
Pair programming work on both storyboarding and content development gave us much more rich, interactive content
We learnt a lot...
Project Outputs
Increased our knowledge and skill sets at TDM Dissemination of this knowledge through: http://wbl-online.org.uk/blog Distribution of free resources through:
http://moodlecommons.org http://bctg-online.org.uk http://spa-online.org.uk
+ Wherever you take the courses away!
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We learnt a lot...
Project Notes
The importance of associated face-to-face training and workshops cannot be over emphasised in improving the impact and uptakes of the resources produced.
We suggest you sell Blended Learning “Sandwiches”.
TotaraLMS (www.totaralms.com) functionality is more useful for WBL / Apprenticeships providers than Moodle
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We learnt a lot...
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Completely re-usable OER
Editable
Free and also Free!
Social constructivism
MotivatingWelcoming
Business CriticalQCF relevant
Experts “in the machine”
Interactive & human-led online Learning
For TotaraLMS or MoodleCMS
Salmon's 5 Steps
XerteAndYouTube
Revenue-EarningOpportunity: “Sandwiches”
Links
http://wbl-online.org.uk/moodle/ WBLonline blogDownload area
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