Design Patterns

To improve communication with students and workplace supervisors and to facilitate a community of learners for students engaged in WIL.

Feedback from both students and clients has been very positive, and a number of students have also been employed by companies involved in the course as a client.

The problem is this project addressed was the emerging need to deliver online School based common courses that are high quality and highly inter-active. Previously the course was run online but the only suitable text was not engaging, had a high readability index, poorly described difficult concepts and had no student support or relevant interactivities.

The student cohort in the common core course, Business Computing 1, is very large (approx. 1000), with a wide variance of prior experience.

Online role-play ‘Fishbowl’ method incorporates the fundamentals of role-play and student collaboration. The students are presented with a scenario and actively contribute to the conversations within the role-play as part of their specified role or character. Students then move in and out of character as part of their designated role....See more

Professional Scientist is currently delivered in a face-to-face format to local students.

The course needed to be modified so that it can be made available in a fully online version for OUA using video resources, online collaboration tools and with educational technology.