Reflecting on Week 2
The Educators will post a Summary of Week 2 by Saturday. There have been some positive reactions to working with the Learning Designer this week. And you do seem to …
Course: Blended and Online Learning Design
Planning a learning design using the Conversational Framework
If you are intending to move your teaching to a more blended (a mix of face-to-face and online learning) or wholly online version it’s useful to plan your students’ work …
Converting your current teaching to online
For this exercise you can work on the whole or part of your weekly teaching set out in the plan from Step 1.4. It will help to think in terms …
Practical Teaching Online
Learning through practice is particularly challenging when circumstances mean that students are unable to attend face-to-face classes and workshops. The video shows ways that scaffolding students work between face-to-face sessions, …
Introduction to the course, the educators and your role
The video introduces the educator and contributors to the course, and their hopes for what it will achieve. The intended learning outcomes for this week are that you will Become …
The digital tools to suit every type of learning
Here are some different types of learning and the digital tools to suit them: Canva Look at Yasemin Allsop’s use of Canva, where she asks her Maths Education students to …
Designs for the learning outcome ‘to explain a concept’
The previous exercise was about creating a learning design for the learning outcome ‘to learn a cognitive skill’, which should be relevant to most teachers at some stage. This exercise …
What is Implementation Science?
In the video, James Mannion, from UCL Institute of Education, Learning and Leadership, introduces the ‘implementation science’ approach to any kind of institutional change. Implementation Science For All Sectors The …
The Learning Designer Tool
The video Introduces the Learning Designer, a free, online, learning design tool for teachers. Based on the Conversational Framework, it builds in the six learning types so that the user …
Using the Learning Designer
Now we look at using the Learning Designer to support your design process, whether it’s for blended or wholly online learning. How the Learning Designer Invites Good Design The video …
The Conversational Framework
The video talks you through the Conversational Framework. a simple distillation of many theories of learning developed over the last hundred years or so, to support teachers in designing for …
Engaging students in discussion and active learning
An effective way of supporting students learning through discussion is to embed it in collaborative learning. You can give them a practical learning task they must do together, where they …
Teachers’ workload
We have to talk about workload. For teachers there is an inevitable significant increase in workload as we move from conventional to online teaching and learning. The move from conventional …
Introduction to Week 3
The video shows some of the ways digital methods can help with the different types of formative assessment, or assessment for learning (not summative assessment for grading). We look at …