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Quality & innovation combined
OES is trusted by leading universities to create high-quality online learning experiences. Genuine academic collaboration with partners sets OES apart, with a proven design and build process perfected over more than a decade.
Take advantage of OES’s continuous innovation. Our evidence-based learning design will put your university at the forefront of student experience.
The global standard for learning design
Our global team of 80-plus learning designers applies creative technology solutions underpinned by academic rigour.
All OES Learning Design is benchmarked to the Quality Matters Framework, the global standard for learning design. We draw upon research, data analytics, user experience, and our own extensive insights to achieve and lead best practice online learning.
OES partners rate significantly higher than national benchmarks in student experience surveys. Swinburne Online students reported an 84.5% positive rating for Learning Resources, compared to the national average of 77.4% for undergraduate students (QILT Student Experience Survey, 2020).
The experts in:
- Translating on-campus programmes to online
- Optimising existing online units
- Developing high-quality materials to support a blended offering
- Embedding a full technology solution, or enhancing your existing tools and LMS
- Creating student-centred learning experiences.
With OES, you’re in safe hands
10+
years of learning design partnerships
2,500+
online units developed globally
400+
learning designers globally
100%
of units delivered on time
Academic excellence
OES works closely with university leaders and academic staff to uphold your institution’s quality and reputation. Drawing on our deep knowledge of online students and collaborating with subject matter experts, we translate partner content into digital and blended learning activities that engage, inspire and connect with students.
Our Academic Directors and Lead Learning Designers have senior experience within the university and private sector domains. We bring strategic knowledge of emerging education trends and alternative credentials globally to every partnership.
Discover how OES collaborates with university partners
Consult
Following workshops with key stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs), we determine the pedagogical model and prepare a course blueprint. Content curation begins.
Build
OES develops all learning content, activities and digital media in close collaboration with SMEs. We work in ‘sprints’ to efficiently manage storyboarding, drafting and recording, and prototyping of all digital media content.
Review
We seek partner feedback across learning materials and design features at key touchpoints, ensuring accuracy and integrity. OES performs its own quality assurance process, which includes a rigorous set of reviews.
Approve
With the final course content ready to go live, it’s time to review and approve the high quality learning experience we have collaboratively produced.
Assessment design
Our expert learning design team constructs authentic assessments that align with learning outcomes and are underpinned by clear marking criteria. OES uses leading technology to design a range of online assessments, based on course requirements across all disciplines. We produce new materials or translate existing content to an optimal online format while retaining integrity and equivalence.
Why OES is market-leading
Leading best practice
- Strict benchmarking to the global Quality Matters Framework.
- All learning materials and assessments comply with Accessibility Standards.
- Experts in meeting higher education regulatory requirements and establishing best practice in every market.
- OES/Swinburne Online case studies included in TESQA’s Online learning good practice guidelines (2020).
Speed & scale
- Launch a high quality online offering in as little as four months.
- From a full university portfolio to single units, OES can scale learning design and production to meet university requirements.
- OES project management allows academics to focus on teaching and research priorities, knowing that the online offering will be world-class.
Innovation
- OES is passionate about building sustainable competitive advantage for our partners.
- Our dedicated innovation team continually explores emerging learning technologies and global education trends.
- Through significant investment in partner pilot programmes, OES advances best practice online learning.
Award-winning innovation
2020
LearnX Live! Platinum Award
Best Agile eLearning Project category: Irabina Autism Services
2021
LearnX Live! Platinum Awards
2 x Best Agile eLearning Project category
“ The quality of communications and collaboration between our academic team and OES’s curriculum developers has been exceptional. That’s at the heart of it – collaboration. “
John Banks
Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Case study: Auckland Online
Auckland Online is part of the University of Auckland, one of the world’s top 100 universities (QS 2021). Leveraging our proven co-design process, OES delivered Auckland Online’s initial suite of postgraduate qualifications, as well as supporting tools to empower students to engage with the online environment.
Importantly, these initial qualifications provided the university with a best practice learning model to inform all future online approaches.
The partnership between OES and Auckland Online continues to strengthen as the university scales its programme offering.
Combine Learning Design with our other Solutions:
Learning Delivery
Quality learning support for online and blended student cohorts.
Simulations & VR
Prepare students for the workplace with real-time, interactive training.
Student Advisory Support & Success Coaching
Exceed student expectations with multi-channel inbound and outbound support.