Resumen de Reengineering UNITAR's Courseware Development Model
This paper examines some of the major courseware development, management, and improvement challenges facing UNITAR in the present and increasingly in the future, which include content development/management tools, up-to-date and relevant course materials, and most importantly a mindset change needed to make it happen. The paper will also propose an iterative collaborative courseware development model, where courses and courseware are continuously being edited, updated and enhanced, with a focus on making both the educators and students involvement in the development process more immersive, engaging, and selfdetermined. In addition to the course leader, tutors and students can also play a significant role in the decision-making and creation process of courseware. To enable a collaborative courseware development environment Moodle is considered as the main platform, as it provides a comprehensive set of user-friendly tools to dynamically create and manage content and activities online. This paper is basically a conceptual paper created to re-examine UNITAR’s existing courseware scenario and propose a reengineered iterative collaborative courseware development model, which can also be applied to other higher learning institutions.
