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Professional Accountancy: Ready for go live
We are approaching the culmination of a year’s hard work on Professional Accountancy. Many different strands of work have come together and over the end of last year and this week we have been working hard to make sure that the VLE for the new Professional Accountancy programme is ready. This has involved pulling together:…
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ePortfolios in a programme with an applied project
Development of ePortfolios in project-based learning can be a valuable activity for student-centered learning experience. During development process an ePortfolio can serve as a way to track student progress and identify learning needs. After completion it can be submitted for assessment or peer review. In project-based learning it is a viable tool for formal and informal…
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Content curation tips
Digital literacy is an essential skill for an online distance learner. It can be defined as “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” (the American Library Association Digital Literacy Task Force) Digital literacy can be developed through content curation techniques which…
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Filming for the MSc Professional Accountancy
Last month saw us filming for the new postgraduate Professional Accountancy programme.
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Open badges and Recognition of Learning
Higher Education institutions commonly use grade-based evaluations where students get rewarded for the knowledge they gain, and tasks such as projects, behavior, skills, and taking tests. The rewards come in the form of a grade (number, letter) or certificates and can be physical or virtual. The rewards may be determined by peer, self, or teacher-based assessments. Rewards…
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Gamification in distance learning
Gamification is a term being used to describe the integration of game elements, in some form, into course design. The elements of gamification listed below, may increase the distance learners’ motivation by making learning more interesting and encourage them to be more engaged in the content: