Hitchhikers Guide to Course Development

Joanne Gonzalez-Major and Amanda Albright

This site was developed to assist teachers develop eLearning by providing early support about where and how to start.

It runs on an Open Source platform that should support tentative adopters at the early stages of ICT readiness.

• Variables , student needs, amount of information being disseminated, changing technology
• The tool is a series of tutorials, references etc
• It has been designed for Life Long Learners and is designed teach them how to learn thus meeting the ever increasing need for ongoing learning.
• Constraints, limited resources, culture, accessible mentors, knowledge base vs teaching experience and finally distance.

They are using MOODLE which was very interesting as there were some connotations early in the presentations that the Open Source system had been developed in house. Obviously it was intended that the content was developed in house. There is obviously some good material here but I believe it would need to be used in conjunction with Ron Oliver’s Learning Design site and Clint Smith’s site on the Frameworks Flexiblelearning.net.au site.

Go to

http://midsolutions.org/cms

The site has a number of tutorials that on the surface look effective. The developers are looking for new users to come on board.