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Curriculum design and support for online learning

View our more recent guide: Designing learning and assessment in a digital age.
Helping you to make choices around curriculum design and determine support needs when scaling up online learning

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About this guide

  • Published: 20 January 2016
  • Updated: 22 June 2016

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Contents

Curriculum design and support for online learning
  • Design and pedagogic models
  • Specific models and theories
    • Behaviourist approaches
    • Constructivist approaches
    • Situated approaches
    • Collaborative approaches
    • Connectivist approaches
  • Gamification and game-based learning
  • Open courses and approaches
  • Considerations for redesigning the curriculum
    • Delivering assessment and feedback
    • Managing and developing content
    • Work-based learning
  • Supporting online students
    • Identifying support needs
    • Supporting learners with different needs
    • Pastoral support
    • Technical support
    • Careers support
  • Developing partnerships with students
  • Staff roles and skills
    • Developing new working practices
    • Skills frameworks
    • Identifying new roles
    • Supporting professional development
  • Summary

This guide forms part of a series to help institutions think about how they might scale up online learning. It outlines choices around curriculum design and what support staff and students may need.

Use our checklist (Word docx) which highlights key questions you may be considering for online learning provision. Your institution may be planning to adopt new models of online or distance learning or may be integrating online learning into existing courses. This checklist can be useful for both scenarios. 

The checklist provides groups of related questions that could be considered by teams, committees or individuals. Some of the questions require institution-wide consideration, whilst others may also need to be considered at a departmental or course team level. The checklist includes strategic and operational aspects as well as more specific questions for individual courses, modules or learning activities.

Related guides

The guide is part of a series around the development and provision of online learning:

  • Scaling up online learning focuses on institutional aspects and considers demand and market intelligence, business models and strategic planning, and operations and procedures
  • Technology and tools for online learning focuses on the implications of technology choices on staff and students.

 

  • Design and pedagogic models
  • Specific models and theories
  • Gamification and game-based learning
  • Open courses and approaches
  • Considerations for redesigning the curriculum
  • Supporting online students
  • Developing partnerships with students
  • Staff roles and skills
  • Summary

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