H810: Accessibility Ahead

If you’ve been too busy to keep up with news from the Course Team, here’s a quick recap of news from the last few weeks:

• The Institute of Educational Technology’s periodic review of the MAODE, PCAP, MScRMET courses and awards has been completed. Professor Mary S. Thorpe, Programme Director, reports that “we achieved the best possible result in that the reviewers stated that they had ‘full confidence’ in both quality and academic standards, and information published.” She also comments that they received a number of commendations for teaching materials, assessment tasks, and links between research and teaching.

• The OU will be piloting Turnitin, a plagiarism detection system. On this pilot, the university will submit work for you, sans personal details (although your PI might be on it from where you added it yourself). For each assignment, a report will be given to the Course Team showing the percentage of your assignment text that matches specific web sites. This may result in additional guidance being provided to you or more serious action.

The full text of both of these announcements is available from the H810 Course News page.