Covid19 has resulted in a wider spread focus on online and distance learning, the buzz word being the ‘online pivot’. There are also lots of…
Category: Curriculum Design
In on-ground education the quantity of contact hours is considered a measure of educational quality. Contact time is traditionally defined by academic work that takes…
‘Acquisition’ is one of the original learning types used in the ABC curriculum design method that we have localised to UCEM. It has been derived…
Last week we hosted our first UCEM Design Jam. The Jam marks the beginning of each module development phase under the Transform programme and provides a…
This is the first in a series of posts about the approach we are adopting in the design of our modules. Here we introduce the…
At UCEM our pedagogy for online education is centred around the idea of participatory (or active) learning. Traditionally, education has taken a transmission-based learning approach where…
UCEM has recently announced that we will be moving away from webinars in favour of ‘online seminars’. This is not just a change of terminology.…
CanvasCon 2018, The Barbican, London, 9 October I attended this event with Karen Ullman and it was a great opportunity to mix with the educational…
Great news that our Online Education team will be presenting two sessions at this year’s ALT Winter Conference! Make sure you put the date and time in your calendar…
When designing online learning sometimes all it takes is a spark of an idea to develop inspiring and engaging activities to benefit our students’ learning.…