AUSTRALIA & ASIA version 2 ( OS2 ), an HTML5 web app delivered on Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) public cloud . Rather than making the students wait till all functionality had been added OS2 was launched at the end of 2014 as a ‘ minimum viable product ’, and since then the team has been developing , testing and releasing added features at the rate of one a fortnight . Trevor McDougall ’ s team includes ten people working exclusively on OpenSpace and a further 15 whose
job is to digitise written course content . “ Implementing this can ’ t be called a project ,” he insists . “ I have a full time team building features all day every day !” The discipline of assessment remains , of course , but students can progress at their own pace . It recognises that they might be devoting their holidays and weekends to learning , for example , but unable to do anything in the working week , and that each student has an individual style of working
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