Tag: online education
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Defining quality in online education: engagement and outcomes
This article presents a model for quality in online education to support decision-making by learning designers, digital media specialists and academic colleagues in the design and development of online courses. Whilst there are many standards and, in the case of formal education, regulatory frameworks that provide criteria against which online courses may be measured, these…
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Desire lines in online education: learning design
This is the second of two posts that look at the metaphor of ‘desire lines’ as applied to programme design and learning design. In the first post Desire Lines in Programme Design, the unnecessary barriers of formal programme architectures were reconsidered through ideas of flexible programmes, unbundling and microcredentials. In this post, the metaphor is…
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Desire lines in online education: programme design
This is the first of two posts exploring the metaphor of ‘desire lines’ and its applicability to programme design and learning design. In a recent webinar, Quentin McAndrew (2022) drew parallels between the stackability of online learning and the way that people will organically form new routes that may deviate from planned and paved paths,…