Read our blog to explore ideas in teaching and learning. Students' first assignments often signal where skills and prior learning are wanting. But acknowledging the extent of these gaps and catering for the learning styles of all students can lead to more proactive approaches to addressing the problem.
In their new online learning environment, your learners will be missing the direct and immediate feedback they would have received in the classroom. They will be less able to benchmark their understanding and progress against their peers, making the feedback they receive in the online environment more important than ever.
One of the key considerations amidst the rapid shift to online learning is how to conduct valid, rigorous and engaging assessments in the online environment.
Online peer-review activities are great to support social learning and to challenge learners’ critical thinking and feedback skills.
Group work is a great way for learners to share their collective knowledge, experience and perspectives.
Live sessions are a common component of fully online HE courses and have become a go-to method of instruction to replace the traditional lecture.
Live sessions are an opportunity for you to connect with your learners at the same time and in the same digital space.
Online live sessions, or webinars, provide opportunities to foster deeper interaction, connection, understanding and for you to demonstrate your presence and support.
In the context of online learning, accessibility refers to the ability of all students to access online learning materials free from barriers and approaches to providing accessible content can be broken down into two broad considerations.
So you have all the materials you would normally use on-campus, but are now moving to online teaching only in the space of a couple of weeks, or maybe even days.
