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  • Unleash your inner entrepreneur!

    Free online course 9th April-21st July If you are running a household somewhere in Europe and wondering how far that experience could take you in a business of your own then why not sign up to the free M-HOUSE course, Business Skills Explorer? All you need to do is write a short email by March…

  • Collaboration across borders

    Collaboration across borders

    Global Ed Con: Promoting collaboration across borders from annefox.eu What are the challenges involved in promoting collaboration online across borders? This is an issue in the two European projects I am currently a partner in at the moment. I presented the projects and some of the more pressing issues at the Global Education Conference in…

  • Designing an Online Course

    How do you go about developing an online course? As with any formal guided learning path, the starting point should always be the learning outcomes. What will your students be able to do as a result of the course? There are many ways of determining how outcomes will be met. Here are four: 1. In…

  • Creating an Online Task

    In the M-HOUSE project we are targeting home-based adults to explore the business skills they have from their experience of running a household over many years. In the same way that reframing the work of hotel attendants as exercise actually helped them to lose weight, we hope that reframing the often-undervalued work of running a…

  • What online learning looks like

    When we ask content experts to design online learning, the default course will look something like this: Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz or essay) Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz or essay) Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz or essay) Content (article, book, video lecture) + Test (quiz…

  • Development of an online module

    M-HOUSE course Part 2 How do you transform an idea into an actual online module? There are many ways of doing this but below I can share the process we went through recently in the M-HOUSE project as we prepared our online course for its first pilot run starting in November 2014. The aim of…

  • Building Key Learning Situations

    M-HOUSE course: part 1 Every course needs to be built on Learning Outcomes but where do these LOs come from? In the M-HOUSE project an 8 module course was built on the basis of 8 Key learning Situations (KLS), an approach which had been successfully used to build the UniKey course aimed at university students.…

  • Business Skills Explorer: 3 free places!

    We (the M-HOUSE project) still have a few places on our free online course starting next week for people running a household and thinking of how their household skills might be able to transfer to a business context. Contact me directly either in a message or as a comment to this post if you would…

  • Learning Designer

    Since I am a partner in two projects planning to design short online courses I was interested to try out a new tool last week, the Learning Designer.  This was introduced through a short sharp MOOC, the International Learning Design Challenge, which was over in a week! The Learning Design tool makes the planning of…