Enhanced Learning - Flexible education workshops
Building Effective Learning Activities
This workshop focuses on providing content, activities and resources that are effective and efficient in terms of the students’ learning outcomes as an integral component of the teaching and learning process. Participants explore the issue of good practice in building and sequencing learning environments and activities. They build on their knowledge and understanding of the role effective activities play in encouraging students to engage and learn.
Problem and Project-Based Learning
Problem and project-based learning approaches can be used to engage students in learning activities that are stimulating, challenging, and authentic to the student’s professional interests and orientation. Students appreciate the opportunity to tackle realistic problem scenarios or to develop their own project, and can be encouraged to become more self-directed learners, willing and able to solve complex problems.
Participants in this workshop discuss ways of developing challenging problems and design a problem scenario to suit a course. The use of Vista templates and online processes that support or enable, and help to manage, self-directed learning will be demonstrated and discussed in relation to existing or new courses.
Collaborative Learning Online
Collaborative learning has the potential to foster a deeper understanding of a topic than students are likely to achieve working on their own, through the sharing of ideas and the introduction of the multiple perspectives of others. Collaborative learning is an effective way to engage students and help them to develop as independent learners. Access to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) can facilitate collaborative activity that is not confined to students’ face-to-face learning times.
In this workshop participants work with their colleagues to explore the benefits of, and strategies and techniques for, using a blended approach to collaborative learning. They work collaboratively to design and develop some collaborative learning activities for their own teaching.
Effective Online Assessment
This workshop focuses on assessment as in integral component of an effective teaching and learning process. Participants briefly explore the issue of good practice in assessment and are introduced to a range of effective assessment strategies and methodologies. They build on their knowledge and understanding of the role assessment plays in providing them with feedback on their own practice and in providing their students with feedback on the effectiveness of their learning. Through discussion, they have the opportunity to explore the assessment practices of others and in the light of this reconsider the way they currently utilise assessment and how these may be translated into online teaching and learning environments.
Online Course Facilitation
Would you like to do more teaching online, but are unsure about how to go about effectively facilitating online activities? Online communication and activities can help students to develop as independent learners, and the flexibility of access can benefit both learner and teacher. This two hour, hands-on workshop helps participants to develop the skills required to support students in online communication and learning.
Participants in this workshop consider the differences between face-to-face and online learning, practice using online communication tools, and learn how to encourage interaction that can support knowledge construction.
Evaluating Online courses
Evaluation methods can be used to obtain feedback from colleagues and students while online courses are being developed as well as at the completion of a course. Evaluation data can be used to shape and improve online course development, provide data for a teaching portfolio, and/or for educational research. Participants in this workshop learn about a range of techniques for gathering evaluation data, including how to use the online technology for data gathering. An evaluation plan is developed during the workshop. Participants also discuss the most effective uses of evaluation techniques.
Online Courses for Off-Campus Students
In this workshop focusing on how to provide and support online courses for off-campus, participants consider the range of supports needed by students who may never be on-campus, and how courses may be designed to fully engage the off-campus student. They then plan the development of resources to assist the provision of off-campus courses. |
