Course Development - Learning Development (BME)

= General =

Budapest University of Tehcnology and Economics (BME)

Traditional HEI

= Context =

This course is a 120 hours fully distance mode course with traditional workbook and fully on-line study guide and tutor support. The pilot experience was carried out within the “Course Development – Learning Design” course.

Objective
The objectives and activities of the course presented to the learners are the following:

Objectives of module I.

By the end of this module you will be able to:

- check whether you have received everything you need to study the course;

- draft the whole structure and model of this course;

- decide your own strategy and path to learn this course;

- schedule in detail the lessons of the course to be learned in the next few months;

- decide whether your ICT skills are enough to start the course;

- decide whether this course suits you.

Objectives of module II.

By the end of this module you will be able to:

- summarize the factors and reasons that led education in Hungary to open and distance learning;

- list the major tendencies;

- group the three forms of open and distance learning;

- give new ideas to develop courses towards open an distance learning (e-learning).

Objectives of module III.

By the end of this module you will be able to:

- define the sort of learning material that your potential users (target population) might need;

- select an already existing material suitable for the learning objectives; - evaluate the chosen material;

- adapt the chosen material in case it does not totally fit the objectives;

- design a new material which is exactly appropriate to your learners;

- edit and layout the material for publishing;

- evaluate and modify your material

Methodology
This course is a highly activity based course with:

- testing prior knowledge

- structured, and guided course book reading and reflection

- creation of own course in small steps

- planning different tasks

- developing, drafting different pedagogical parts

- discussing drafts with your mentor

- modifying drafts

- following the development process in a learning blog

- sending Tutor marked assignments at major milestones of the development

- discussing feedback with tutor on-line (forum, blog)

- creating an e-portfolio with all important elements of the design process and documents made

- piloting sample chapter with target group

Assessment
''How it will be assessed? ''

= User-Generated Content experience =

Short description of the experience

Objective
Which is UGC activity/ies objective?

Users
What kind of learners and number will be involved?

Methodology
''How it is developed? Includes technological tools''

= How did you address quality-related issues? =

Describe just main issues

Link to CONCEDE Quality Framework