Online Education

I have experience delivering training in a class room setting, in the work place and on a one to one basis. As an Open University Associate Lecturer in computing I teach my students but for small busy organisations where I score is in delivering training on what you need, when you want it. This can be through site visits or remotely using collaboration tools such as virtual classrooms.

Many training programmes fall down by wasting time teaching you stuff that you are never going to use instead of

focusing on what you need to know.

With experience and qualifications from the Open University I can also help you develop and deliver online training materials for your staff, volunteers or client groups.

Effective online training depends on more than slick design and fancy multimedia. You need to understand

your learners and what will be the best learning strategy to adopt. There are a range of delivery mechanisms but if you really need a full blown online learning system take a serious look at the Moodle open source system.

If content creation is your main concern there are many different software tools for creating e-learning courses and materials, if you want to import them into a virtual learning environment like Moodle they will need to have a SCORM export option. Some tools that I have worked with are:

eXeLearning

Open source, free, runs under MS Windows and Linux and as a portable, application. The latest version is 2.1.3 this has made many useful improvements but much of the supporting documentation is only available in Spanish so we have made an English guide that can be

be downloaded from from here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nw0165kyvm170o1/AACANEprrXUj9k4_AOmfCQ2La?dl=0

Here https://opensource.com/article/18/5/exelearning is an article on exelearning that I wrote for the Opensource.com website.

OpenLearn Create

If you are looking to create some non-commercial online learning as an open educational resource (publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute) and are OK with it having a Creative Commons license then take a look at the Open University OpenLearn Create web site (http://www.open.ac.uk/about/open-educational-resources/openlearn-create).

In reality designing and creating a worth while piece of high quality online learning can become a major project it would be useful to complete this OpenLearn Create course 'How to make an open online course' (https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2221) before you start. If this sounds a bit daunting remember that you do not need to do everything in house, or on your own, we would be happy to help.

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