Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Monday, 24 Feb 2014, 17:21
Fig.1 Odd that, 12 years and I've gained hair, glasses and a tie.
In February 2001 I began an OU module on Open & Distance Learning - last year I graduated with the Masters in Open & Distance Education (MAODE). Since then I've taken a couple more MAODE modules to stay up to date. Impossible given that any MAODE module is out of date before it goes live?
In 2001 distance learning looked like this:
Fig.2. Some of the books that came in my OU 'Box' at the start of the module
The next direction has to be horizontally into the Open University (again), or vertically towards a PhD. Or both? Or neither.
Meanwhile, I sincerely recommend that anyone with any interest in the way education is going to follow the BBC tonight.
My OU Years
Fig.1 Odd that, 12 years and I've gained hair, glasses and a tie.
In February 2001 I began an OU module on Open & Distance Learning - last year I graduated with the Masters in Open & Distance Education (MAODE). Since then I've taken a couple more MAODE modules to stay up to date. Impossible given that any MAODE module is out of date before it goes live?
In 2001 distance learning looked like this:
Fig.2. Some of the books that came in my OU 'Box' at the start of the module
The next direction has to be horizontally into the Open University (again), or vertically towards a PhD. Or both? Or neither.
Meanwhile, I sincerely recommend that anyone with any interest in the way education is going to follow the BBC tonight.
BBC Radio 4 8.00pm
The Classroom of the Future
Is it an OU co-production? These days these things usually are.