Design and Delivery for Online Learning
Contact hours
- 8 hours per week
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Aims and objectives
In this unit you will explore how to integrate good online teaching practice into face to face, blended and online environments through a critical approach to educational technology. You will acquire online learning design skills and apply them to develop engaging learning activities, assessment tasks and feedback methods that effectively promote student learning and engagement. You will refine your ability to be an effective member of a learning community and to encourage student peer interactions.
2. Sustain and modify an online learning environment in order to meet many of the needs, wants and expectations of students.
4. Demonstrate the capacity to engage in online communities that involve synchronous and asynchronous discussions and peer review.
5. Practice and apply a critical approach to digital technology integration in order to make a positive difference in learning and teaching.
Courses with unit
In this unit you will explore how to integrate good online teaching practice into face to face, blended and online environments through a critical approach to educational technology. You will acquire online learning design skills and apply them to develop engaging learning activities, assessment tasks and feedback methods that effectively promote student learning and engagement. You will refine your ability to be an effective member of a learning community and to encourage student peer interactions. Two of the four assessments are individual. The remaining two assessments each give you the choice of completing it as a pair of individually.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Assessment
General skills outcomes
- Analysis skills
- Communications skills
- Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
- Ability to work independently
- Problem solving skills
Content
- A critical approach to educational technology
- The blended learning spectrum
- Developing and sustaining online engagement
- Encouraging and giving feedback
- Planning online curricula
- Ensuring quality through using rubrics and peer review
- Integrating online experiences into predominately on-campus units
- E-assessment methods
- Designing for group work
- Being an online teacher – time management and the community
Study resources
- Text books and recommended reading.
Text books
Bates, A. W. (2019), Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for Designing Teaching and Learning for a Digital Age. Retrievable from http://contactnorth.ca/teachinginadigitalage/
There are also required readings and recommended readings accessible online.
Recommended reading
Bates, A. W. (2015), Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for Designing Teaching and Learning for a Digital Age. Retrievable from http://contactnorth.ca/teachinginadigitalage/
In addition to this, there are recommended readings, which are available online.