{"id":673,"date":"2014-03-03T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/numoocs\/?p=3"},"modified":"2021-09-15T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:44:14","slug":"frontiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2014\/03\/03\/frontiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers old and new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0lot awful lot of work has been\u00a0going on behind the scenes following\u00a0the University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press.office\/press.release\/item\/futurelearn-secures-first-industry-alliance-and-three-new-university-partners\">announcement\u00a0<\/a>of our\u00a0partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/\">FutureLearn\u00a0<\/a>to deliver free online courses, starting with our first course on Hadrian&#8217;s Wall.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/03\/teamhw3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15\" alt=\"teamhw3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/03\/teamhw3-300x212.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have\u00a0 a\u00a0great team in place for this, our first venture into\u00a0MOOCs\u00a0and we were really pleased to get &#8220;Team Hadrian&#8221; together for the first time on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/historical\/staff\/profile\/ian.haynes\">Prof Ian Haynes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/historical\/staff\/profile\/robert.collins\">Dr Rob Collins<\/a> for very long to appreciate their enthusiasm for Hadrian&#8217;s Wall and what it tells us of\u00a0the rich picture of life on this Roman Frontier.\u00a0 Our\u00a0Digital Media Team (Stephen, Kevin, Helen and Dave) will be adding creative juices to bring relics and places to life; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/quilt\/staff\/profile\/mike.cameron\">Mike <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/quilt\/staff\/profile\/suzanne.hardy\">Suzanne <\/a>are on hand to pull it all together and offer advice on structure, narrative and engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The day&#8217;s agenda covered a close look at the FutureLearn platform; discussion of filming practicalities; and a chance to further refine\u00a0ideas on content to fit our goals and objectives.\u00a0 As is fitting with a project involving new and ancient frontiers the team moved seamlessly between YouTube, GoogleDocs, BaseCamp and Post-it notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/03\/postitsmall2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12\" alt=\"postitsmall2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/03\/postitsmall2-300x103.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0lot awful lot of work has been\u00a0going on behind the scenes following\u00a0the University&#8217;s announcement\u00a0of our\u00a0partnership with\u00a0FutureLearn\u00a0to deliver free online courses, starting with our first course on Hadrian&#8217;s Wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[117,126],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-moocs","tag-futurelearn","tag-hadrians-wall-2","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}