Keeping it alive for longer
Sustainable e-learning is about giving a resource life and longevity. Using our sustainability approach means we can make sure the resource is used, reused, and adapts over time.
Just because we've completed something, doesn't mean that it needs to stay the same. For us, projects should have a life beyond their final delivery. Exactly how this works will vary, but through our e-learning consultancy, we'll work with you find the best solutions to enable you to take a more sustainable approach to training, learning and development.
In part, this comes down to understanding how the product will be used. Right from the start of the project, we achieve buy-in from the end user and client. We build not just for our audience, but with our audience. Whatever we make must be completely usable, right from the start.
This is where many good developers would stop, but we believe that truly sustainable e-learning should adapt and grow. In this context, sustainability could mean different things. We offer consultancy and advice to enable your resources to grow beyond the boundaries of our original contract. DESQ work with you to make sure you have all the tools and skills you need while your products continue to grow and meet ever changing demands.
Just because we've completed something, doesn't mean that it needs to stay the same. For us, projects should have a life beyond their final delivery. Exactly how this works will vary, but through our e-learning consultancy, we'll work with you find the best solutions to enable you to take a more sustainable approach to training, learning and development.
In part, this comes down to understanding how the product will be used. Right from the start of the project, we achieve buy-in from the end user and client. We build not just for our audience, but with our audience. Whatever we make must be completely usable, right from the start.
This is where many good developers would stop, but we believe that truly sustainable e-learning should adapt and grow. In this context, sustainability could mean different things. We offer consultancy and advice to enable your resources to grow beyond the boundaries of our original contract. DESQ work with you to make sure you have all the tools and skills you need while your products continue to grow and meet ever changing demands.
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There are a number of tools and existing media channels that can be used to support your sustainability strategy: we could tap into social networking elements, create open or invitation only online communities and provide a living interface allowing user generated content. The important thing is that we work with you to decide what will work best.
Example projects where we used a sustainable approach to e-learning include Music for Real, Being Functional and STEM in Space for LSIS.
Music for Real saw us create a competition tool which post-16 providers could use to set up and run their own music competitions. We originally built and ran a competition for LSIS which allowed bands and solo artists from a range of genres to upload their own music video in order to be in with a chance of winning a recording session at Abbey Road. We used this as the basis for a sustainable model that could be used over and over again by a range of providers.
For STEM in Space, we created an exploratory 'Navigator' interface; a space-themed, gaming-style interface through which teachers and learners can access hard-to-teach STEM content. We created a content management system through which LSIS, the British National Space Centre and any provider could add content after the resource went live. Deliberately, the interface is sparsely populated with our own content to encourage user generated content, helping the resource to grow beyond our involvement.
But what if you already have the learning content or existing resources? Rather than spending time and expense making something new, why not think about sustainability and use what's out there already? Existing content can be repackaged or reworked for different contexts or different audiences. This is exactly what happened when we built on the wealth of resources developed for Skills for Life and key skills to support functional skills. This material was repurposed and recycled to form the heart of our LSIS functional skills resource, Being functional.
Taking a sustainable approach to e-learning was part of the primary brief for Being Functional. The aim was to ensure that the many excellent resources created for Skills for Life and key skills were not lost in the transition to functional skills. We repurposed some of these resources to map them to the needs of functional skills delivery, and then gave guidance on how to repurpose others. We also catalogued over 600 resources that could be used or repurposed for functional skills and archived them in a user friendly library, giving the material new life and repackaging it for a new audience.
Example projects where we used a sustainable approach to e-learning include Music for Real, Being Functional and STEM in Space for LSIS.
Music for Real saw us create a competition tool which post-16 providers could use to set up and run their own music competitions. We originally built and ran a competition for LSIS which allowed bands and solo artists from a range of genres to upload their own music video in order to be in with a chance of winning a recording session at Abbey Road. We used this as the basis for a sustainable model that could be used over and over again by a range of providers.
For STEM in Space, we created an exploratory 'Navigator' interface; a space-themed, gaming-style interface through which teachers and learners can access hard-to-teach STEM content. We created a content management system through which LSIS, the British National Space Centre and any provider could add content after the resource went live. Deliberately, the interface is sparsely populated with our own content to encourage user generated content, helping the resource to grow beyond our involvement.
But what if you already have the learning content or existing resources? Rather than spending time and expense making something new, why not think about sustainability and use what's out there already? Existing content can be repackaged or reworked for different contexts or different audiences. This is exactly what happened when we built on the wealth of resources developed for Skills for Life and key skills to support functional skills. This material was repurposed and recycled to form the heart of our LSIS functional skills resource, Being functional.
Taking a sustainable approach to e-learning was part of the primary brief for Being Functional. The aim was to ensure that the many excellent resources created for Skills for Life and key skills were not lost in the transition to functional skills. We repurposed some of these resources to map them to the needs of functional skills delivery, and then gave guidance on how to repurpose others. We also catalogued over 600 resources that could be used or repurposed for functional skills and archived them in a user friendly library, giving the material new life and repackaging it for a new audience.
