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WORKSHOPS AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
There are a few places left on the following workshops in April 2000
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Quality assurance in open and distance learning
- a 1-day workshop with Bernadette Robinson
16 May 2000, 09.30 - 17.00.
Held at the Open University Training Centre, Cofferidge Close, Stony
Stratford, Milton Keynes.
How can you ensure good quality in your learning materials or services? How
can you track problems systematically? How can you use your findings to
improve quality and satisfy your assessors?
Who will benefit: Teachers, trainers, managers and course developers
interested in monitoring and improving the quality of learning materials and
services.
Workshop aims:The workshop should help you to:
1. Examine examples of open and distance learning systems in which quality
seems capable of improvement.
2. Identify aspects of your own system whose quality might be improved.
3. Consider a range of tools and approaches for use in quality assurance.
4. Draw up an Action Plan for improving quality in your own organisation or
section.
Fee: £195-less 10% discount if you book more than one place on this or any
of our other workshops or courses.
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Teaching and learning with media
a 1-day workshop with Adrian Kirkwood
17 May 2000, 09.30 - 17.00.
Held at the Open University Training Centre, Cofferidge Close, Stony
Stratford, Milton Keynes.
Many media are available for use in teaching and learning. Audio and video
are widely used media that can be delivered in an increasing number of ways.
But how might these media best be used to meet your learners' needs and how
can they be combined effectively?
Who will benefit: Teachers, trainers, managers and course developers
concerned with choosing and using media in open or distance learning
systems.
Workshop aims: The workshop should help you to:
1. Evaluate the advantages and limitations of some of the most commonly
available learning media.
2. Observe and discuss the ways in which audio and video materials have been
used in some sample teaching sequences.
3. Examine some criteria for choosing media.
4. Plan how you might use audio or video (along with other media) in your
own teaching.
5. Make more effective use of whichever media you choose.
Fee: £195-less 10% discount if you book more than one place on this or any
of our other workshops or courses. (Each workshop member will receive a copy
of Rethinking University Teaching by Diana Laurillard.)
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For further information or to book a place on either of these workshops
please contact Brenda Parish , tel: 01908 653055, fax: 01908 654173, email:
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Christine Wellard
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