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Online learning projectsSome critical factors

Prepared by: Paul Trahair

29 August 2003

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Success? Failure?

Meeting user needs

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Three examples

• A post-graduate course template for the web

• A larger strategic development website + CD-ROM

• A WebCT project – faculty template + a new tool

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Post Graduate web site template

• Master of Education (Leadership, Policy & Change)

• Master of Education (International Education)

• Master of Education (Music)

• Master of Education, two core research units

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Requirements

• SPEED!

• Flexible delivery – on/off in Australia, the world

– mixed mode Singapore

• Simple to use – fill, update, add to– Academic staff, contract staff

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Flexibility

– a scaffold for content (unit / study guide)

– a platform for interactivity

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Design considerations

• Usability

• Blue and white fatigue

• Monash visual identity

• Copyright issues (ht access)

• Privacy policy

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Mixed mode: website, print, CD-ROM

Bachelor of Outdoor Sport and Recreation

• Mandatory information

• Learning materials / interactivity / communciation

• Help-yourself work placement

• Activity documents – planning, info, waivers

• Online journal

• CD-ROM for multimedia delivery

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Design considerations

• Flexible delivery – On campus in Australia

– mixed mode Singapore

• Strategic flagship product– Look and feel

– Tailored to clients (internationalising the curriculum)

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WebCT – trial of a new Faculty template & developing a new e-learning tool

• GOLD project benefit

• Scaffold for content (unit / study guide)

• Platform for interactivity

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Critical Factors

• Pedagogy drives the technology

• User centered design

• Over-investment

• Print, CD-ROM

• Web-based material

• Selecting and sequencing the right tools

• Learning from feedback

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