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OPERATIONALIZING CONNECTIVIST PRINCIPLES IN ONLINE TERTIARY COURSE DESIGN

Christine Armatas, Christine Spratt, and Andrew Vincent
Higher Education Office
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Australia

In this paper we discuss the design of a fully online course – the Bachelor of Enterprise Learning – expected to be offered for the first time in 2014. We describe how connectivist principles guided design of active, student-centered learning activities for this degree that incorporate technology as both a source of information and a tool. Examples illustrate how these principles can be put into practice in developing learning activities, assessment tasks and whole subjects. We also discuss the value of using a framework such as this for providing consistency in subject design while still leaving scope for innovative and effective pedagogy.
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