Archive for July, 2008

Content Development Update w/e 18/07/08

July 17th, 2008

Sarah and I have a meeting next week with the University of Exeter to begin the transformation process of their module material. To prepare for the meeting I have read through all of their module material and made notes about how the material can be transformed into open content. This led to the creation of […]

Meeting with Louise Buxton w/e 11th July 2008

July 11th, 2008

On Tuesday I went to the Buxton campus to visit Louise Buxton, content author of the Customer Service Skills module. Progress is going well on this module and there are currently three units uploaded onto OpenLearn in various stages of development: Introduction to Customer Service; Responding to Customer Needs; and Market Research Methods.
Louise has rewritten […]

Meeting with Antonios Platsas w/e 11 July 2008

July 11th, 2008

On Monday I met with content author, Antonios Platsas who is writing the International Economic Law module from scratch for POCKET. We both agreed that progress on this material is going very well and that the POCKET team and Antonios have a very strong working relationship. Antonios has even said that he would be very […]

WTO: Distance Learning and eTraining

July 4th, 2008

The WTO have some interesting interactive learning material on their website:
WTO Distance Learning Gateway
WTO eTraining
This is very relevant to the law module module being developed for POCKET, as unit 2 is all about the World Trade Organisation. The interactive activities contained on these two sites will hopefully give us some inspiration and ideas for our […]