E211 Learning Matters

So Lamorna has given you a first impression of E211, let me give you a 'story so far' update. You know when you sit down to try and understand matrixes (nothing to do with Keanu Reeves) when you were about 14 and the whole thing went over you head? Well that was me this week with E211. This course is aimed at those who are interested in how, who and what is involved in our learning as children and parents. It's focused on lifelong learning and the influence of technology,is heavy going but .....you just can't help yourself! One of the first exercises is to rummage through a virtual trunk in an attic belonging to someone you ...

It’s normal practice for the development of a traditional Open University Course to take three years and over half a million pounds to develop before students start to be enrolled in it. Once produced, thousands of students would take it over a period of over five years or more of its lifetime. The reasoning being, that for the time and money spent on producing the course and its materials, it needed to be perfect before the launch, as it wasn’t viable to alter the course once students had begun to work on it. The course materials used in ‘Traditional’ Open University courses consisted of paper-based resources such as ...