MARTIN PUTTERILL MBA PhD Cape Town, FCMA, CA, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting and Finance, Auckland Business School, The University of Auckland m.putterill@auckland.ac.nz
Curriculum Design, Internet, CECIL, Mike’s Bikes, Real–World Physics, Simulation, Peak Learning Experience, Content–Quality.
The paper recognises the importance of three elements in ALN course design and delivery: access, process and process–efficiency, and content–quality. Analysing distance learning developments in the tertiary sector, the author concludes that there is an over emphasis on widening access to courses and process efficiency is leading to lower content quality.
The danger that ALN will not live up to its great potential, and become uniform, prompts a call for the development of a balanced framework which reflects these three related elements. This framework is used to describe characteristics of three exemplary web–based projects used in tertiary and post–tertiary education.
The paper concludes by drawing attention to the need to side–step the trap of uniformity, by engaging in the preparation of Peak Learning Experience courses.