Developing Online Training Courses: Virtual Classrooms and Forums

After the presentations given at our workshop on Developing Online Research Training and Course Delivery we broke up into several groups to discuss the issues involved.  This proved to be a highly useful exercise. One part of that conversation focused on the problem...

The Open University History MA

I think it is safe to say that the Open University are considered the leaders in distance learning and online training.  In the UK they have certainly experimented with new tools and technologies long before other universities have even realised that those tools...

Online History Courses

At the workshop held by the IHR on Tuesday this week we held presentations from myself, my colleagues at the IHR Simon Trafford and Mark Merry (IHR Training), and Chris Williams, Stuart Mitchell, and Wendy Mears from the Open University History MA course.  Over the...

Delivering Online Training and Teaching

Earlier this week the IHR held an afternoon workshop on the topic of developing online research training and course delivery.  The event attracted around 20 people from various professions and bringing with them differing expertise.  In all the event was a great...