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Supporting & Enhancing Online Teaching & Learning

Supporting & Enhancing Online Teaching & Learning. by Catherine Ogilvie Centre for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching. Some Key Components of Online Learning. Administration Course Materials Interaction Activities Assessment Evaluation Student Support. What are the benefits?

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Supporting & Enhancing Online Teaching & Learning

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  1. Supporting & Enhancing Online Teaching & Learning by Catherine Ogilvie Centre for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching

  2. Some Key Components of Online Learning • Administration • Course Materials • Interaction • Activities • Assessment • Evaluation • Student Support

  3. What are the benefits? Interaction? Curriculum design Learning styles? Activity times? Assessing learning? Academic integrity? Resources and logistics? Educational purpose? Whom do I teach? How do I teach? How many? What tools are available? Did it work? Going online . . .

  4. Navigation Where am I? Where can I go? How do I get there? When I get there, how do I get back?

  5. Navigation • Ensure it is easy to find information • Logical links • Course map • Signposts: table of contents, navigation, aims, assessment

  6. text resources glossary / help text multimedia resources lecture notes presentations video conferences images simulations web pages pdf files spreadsheets databases audio files email messages, posting and chat dialogues virtual tours Types of Course Materials

  7. Course Materials

  8. Course Materials • Reading online or offline? • Build in interactivity • Think about accessibility issues • Create easy to read pages • Linking to enhance knowledge and understanding

  9. Meaningful headings and subheadings Lists One idea per paragraph Inverted pyramid 50% less words Background & font colours Consistency Use summaries Highlight and emphasise keywords Plain, simple straightforward language Catch reader’s interest Thoughtful linking Concise sentences Stand alone pages Course Materials

  10. Online Discussions • Aim to generate a purposeful interaction to increase knowledge and skills • Encourage active participation: • compare, classify, induce, deduce, analyse errors, construct support, make abstractions, analyse perspectives • Creates a sense of community • Reference source e.g. FAQs

  11. Online Discussions • Benefits • Ability to build upon perspectives and gain deeper understanding • Encourages participation from everyone • Address sensitive issues • Identify problem areas • Drawbacks • Too much participation • Lack of participation

  12. Online Discussions • Single Topic Discussion - asynchronous • sequential dialogue • Threaded Discussion - asynchronous • respond directly to specific topics • Chat - synchronous ‘real time’ • not very good for educational purposes • little time to think about a response • unstructured, difficult to follow • Good, for building online community

  13. Online Discussions • Present text as ‘points for discussion’, encourage collaboration • Time consuming • Respond to postings, give credit • Numbers? • Netiquette • Interacting with people NOT technology • Nurture community feeling • Motivation to participate?

  14. Assessments • To ensure learners have integrated the desired knowledge • On or off-line? • Development of products or portfolios • Suggestions: • critique a website, problems based upon using the web, identify useful links, design a web page, work through simulations, online self assessments with immediate feedback

  15. Activities • Create small project groups to work on a specific topic • Assign roles within a group • Structure projects promoting collaboration • Use problem based learning

  16. Evaluation • Check educational objectives • Usability of the whole package • Feedback from users • Redesign as appropriate • Development is an iterative process

  17. The Online Learning Experience Audio Images Simulations Online Lecture Tutorials Project Work Virtual Tours Links Support Chat Communities Online Notes Discussions Glossaries Assessments

  18. Large number of students access information Allows flexible pace Constant source of reference and revision material Accessible anywhere Geographically dispersed students Up to date FAQs Reduce marking Self assessment Stimulating environment Consistency Address new skills Improve channels of communication What are the benefits?

  19. Curriculum should drive technology Tools relevant to learning experience Technology can enhance learning Create and maintain the human touch Time consuming Cannot assume your site will be visited Easy to click elsewhere Beware of too many links Motivation and participation Equal interaction Words of caution

  20. Document length Writing style Graphics Standardisation Contact details Facilitate Scanning Use of Headings Hyperlinks Interaction Activities Describe links Accessibility Issues Consistent layout Test the design and modify Up to date Biographies Archives Assessment To summarise . . .

  21. Thank youfor your attention Catherine Ogilvie Educational Development Officer CELT email: c.ogilvie@rgu.ac.uk ext: 3343

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