Digital Education
Welcome to the Digital Education team. If you are engaged in any online digital learning projects or are looking to explore the digital learning option for one of your courses, please contact us.
Our team has four key areas of focus:
Our team's specialty areas
Course Design and Development
Design
- Mapping assessments and activities to learning outcomes
- Synthesizing proposed course content to create discrete structured segments
- Linking learning design theory to practical approaches to online learning
- Designing the online student experience
Development
- Content, activity and assessment creation
- Storyboarding
- Design and delivery of assessments
Project and Resource Management
Project Management
- Project initiation and scoping
- Determining key milestones
- Forging the critical path
- Schedule and time management
- Managing stakeholders
- Identifying, escalating and mitigating risk
- Reporting and communications
- Implementing quality assurance processes
- Establishing and recording lessons learned
Resource Management
- Budget management
- Setting team time allocation
Course Implementation and Evaluation
Implementation
- Setting up the Virtual Learning Environment
- Interface design
- Multimedia asset design
- Interaction design
- Accessibility standards and inclusion of assistive technologies
- Assessment tools and plugins
Evaluation
- Devising a review and course improvement strategy
- Setting up student surveys
- Gathering feedback
- Feeding student feedback into Staff-Student Liaison Committees
- Implementing outcomes from feedback and review
Consultation and Best Practice
Consultation
- Establishing key digital learning requirements in new programme proposals in the pre-approval stage
- Evaluating optimal approaches to designing and delivering digital learning in the online environment
- Advising on the processes and timelines for the creation of blended and online learning events
Best Practice
- Showcasing best practice in online teaching and digital learning through conferences and workshops
- Embedding best practice for the creation of digital assets through collaborative faculty working
- Promoting and embedding the digital baseline