Sclater has some interesting things to say here about the need for communication, evidence-gathering of success stories, skills development for staff, providing incentives, and skewing funding so as to encourage development of elearning.
As regards Evidence Gathering of Success Stories – this is great in theory but in my experience is extremely difficult in practice because people just don’t have the time to consolidate their thinking and share it when they have achieved something.
On incentives, Sclater suggests that offering financial incentives to staff to engage with elearning development may be part of the solution – I’m not sure that all academic staff would necessarily be that incentivised by financial reward, and for some people they may actually be demotivated by having their academic endeavours directly tied to financial incentives.
Funding of Module Development
Fascinating that most funding goes towards the initial development of a module, with very little budget allocated for ongoing enhancements.
Seems to me there is a big opportunity for Continuing Professional Education for some subject areas, where students may be happy to pay an ongoing fee to an institution for top-quality updates on how their professional area is developing.
So maybe the OU needs to switch a lot of funding towards continuous module update and evolution.
[H800 week 21 activity 2]
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