Learn to love blogging! This online course shows you everything you need to know to build your blog - in around 3 hours a week. Learn any time anywhere over a period of 9 weeks. You choose the time you learn.

Starts Monday 15th March 2010

Can you afford 2-3 hours a week to get started with blogging? You can begin our course right now and in nine weeks' time you could be an established blogger!  We will take you through all the practical steps of starting up and developing your blog.

If you're serious about going ahead with blogging and want to get real value from it, then this is the course for you.

Learn how to take control of your web strategy, drive traffic to your website, establish your expertise, take control of your online presence, and create conversations with clients. Alongside other course delegates you will spend around two hours a week online, at whatever time suits you, creating your blog strategy, setting up your blog, learning where to find and how to write topical posts, experimenting with marketing and monetising tactics, and learning from the others on your course as we build your own online blogging community and resources.

A 5-week online course (in Moodle). You will need to set aside 3-4 hours per week at any time to suit yourself. 

This course is also available as a three- or five-week course delivered for an educational institution or group in your own VLE.

This course aims to provide you with the key skills for teaching online and to enhance the effectiveness of interactive elements in your course, whether on-campus or distance, blended or entirely online.

The tutor, Helen Whitehead, has taught similar courses in a variety of institutions, settings and VLEs, including Moodle and Blackboard/WebCT (whatever your VLE, the skills taught in this course are transferable).

Open to all lecturers, tutors and teachers in HE, FE, schools or online training contexts, this course aims to provide you with the key skills for designing online activities and teaching online. By the end of this course you will be able to: