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Designing and implementing an online PhD programme

Designing and implementing an online PhD programme. Dr Richard Freeman Programme Leader for Online MPhil/PhD r.freeman@ioe.ac.uk. Rationale. Timely ( MOOCs , tablets, smartphones and Skype) Cheaper: no living in London, no travel, able to work No need for visas

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Designing and implementing an online PhD programme

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  1. Designing and implementing an online PhD programme Dr Richard Freeman Programme Leader for Online MPhil/PhD r.freeman@ioe.ac.uk

  2. Rationale • Timely (MOOCs, tablets, smartphones and Skype) • Cheaper: no living in London, no travel, able to work • No need for visas • Supports students who need to relocate • PRES 2013: 41.5% distance learning

  3. Building on existing expertise • OMRes Educational and Social Research (Dr Will Gibson) • Five years of experience in purely online environment • Lessons learnt: facilitating engagement for students based worldwide

  4. Decisions • Fees – identical • Supervision – identical • Certificate – identical • All for an equivalentexperience

  5. Structure • Spectrum: Two ends, not stretching from one • Put student in control of blended learning • VLE Moodle & Blackboard Collaborate: forums, activities, recordings and live (e.g. seminars) • Supervision, Research Environment, Library, Student Support • Research Methods, Generic skills

  6. OMRes modules • Approaches to Educational Research • Research and the Theoretical Field • Research Methods • Writing and Presenting Educational Research • Qualitative Data Analysis • Quantitative Data Analysis • bit.ly/NVivoSPSS

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