Transforming higher education through exceptional online learning
Our inspirational online courses provide students, researchers, lecturers and professional staff with access to top-quality training in essential skills at a time and place of their choosing.
OUR COURSES
IMPROVE TEACHING QUALITY AND ENHANCE TEACHING CAPABILITIES
Our online courses provide support in everything from leading discussion, lecturing and supervision to using VLEs, online assessment and the pedagogy of online teaching.
OUR COURSES
MAXIMISE RESEARCH QUALITY AND OUTPUT
Our online courses provide support in everything from research project management and presentation skills to collaboration and career management.
Development of Professional Skills for Research Leaders now underway - scheduled for November 2013 release.
OUR COURSES
PROVIDE HE-TAILORED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SENIOR STAFF
Our online courses will develop understanding of the HE context, culture and personal leadership approaches for the most senior staff.
Latest news: New programme, University Leadership and Management, released in summer 2012.
OUR COURSES
HELP STUDENTS UNDERSTAND AND AVOID PLAGIARISM
Our online course focuses on the key area of plagiarism, which is a serious offence at all universities and is becoming easier to detect.
OUR KEY VALUES
EDUCATION CAN TRANSFORM LIVES FOR THE BETTER
We've seen it happen – again and again – for students and faculty. Our belief in the positive impact of education is the reason we do what we do. From course design and development to our ongoing technical and implementation support, our unifying passion for transformative education drives us to deliver more.
FEATURED INSIGHTS
A degree in Technicolor anyone?
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The University of Milan and Milan Polytechnic are, for the first time, both offering one-year masters degrees in color (story first published in the Financial Times), which commence February 2013.
At Epigeum we have frequent extended discussions on the use of color in our courses and it is a topic on which everyone has a view. We asked in-house graphic designer Tom Pritchard for his opinion on the importance of color, here is what he had to say:
“Color is an integral aspect of design for reasons beyond simply the decorative. A designer’s primary task is to communicate information in the most effective way possible, and color is a key consideration for facilitating an enjoyable and productive experience for the user.
FEATURED INSIGHTS
The emergence of Mass Online Tutoring Systems
Until recently there was great excitement in education circles surrounding MIT's OpenCourseWare project and similar OER sites from other institutions. Among the benefits was the release of knowledge from the confines of the lecture theater to a mass global audience. However providing course materials alone, while still valuable, already seems like old hat.
The reason is the emergence of the MOTS, the mass online tutoring systems. These systems also aim to provide education to a mass audience but do so while providing a far richer educational experience. The first such system to come to prominence was Udacity but this was quickly followed by Coursera, OLI and most recently the announcement of MIT and Harvard's edX project. I imagine there will be more to follow.