As a course convenor for some distance learning courses at the University of Aberdeen until a couple of years ago I was adept at using Bloom’s taxonomy in order to design ILOs and and to write essay and exam questions. Yesterday, as I caught up with the reading for this iteration of #MoocMooc: MMID: SUBVERSION AND INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN (a… Continue reading →
When Vicki and I found out a few months ago that one of the new Futurelearn MOOCs we’d be supporting was on Burns and was due to launch on Burns night (25th January 2016) we were excited and a little bit apprehensive. Excited because it’s a fabulous subject and we knew that there was a… Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting—probably apocryphal—story about the shampoo industry. A shampoo company was desperate to increase their profits. After many brain-storming sessions, the company came up with an ingenious and very inexpensive way to make consumers use twice as much shampoo as before thereby emptying the bottle twice as fast resulting in the need to buy another… Continue reading →