ABSTRACT
Even if a course assembles the necessary learning resources in a manageable way, it still has to be delivered. Delivery involves bringing the students into contact and engagement with what they have to learn. A welldelivered course will use the most appropriate ‘package’ or mix of methods, media and materials to do this, and use them skilfully. The word ‘appropriate’ implies that there is no general pattern here, and the forms of delivery will depend on the kind of course you and your colleagues are teaching, in terms of its general aims, the nature of the content, the level of work, the numbers and types of students, the physical setting, the institutional context and the prevailing educational norms in the system or culture (see Notes). Delivery becomes a problem where the means used are inappropriate in respect of one or more of the above. And even if the means or methods used are appropriate, they have to be applied competently and well.
