Enhancing the experience of teaching in the web conferencing classroom

Sarah CorneliusSchool of Education

ELESIG Scotland, St Andrews 23 November 2015

Competence &Confidence

Cognition & Multimodality

Strategies &Experience

Technology Media

Teaching

Challenges of teaching

and learningwith web

conferencing

from Cornelius and Neumann, 2012

What do we know?

What do we know?

• Needs confidence and competence– Demanding environment (Cornelius, 2014)

• Needs new/adapted strategies – “Teaching with a blindfold on” (Cornelius et al. 2014)

• Needs resilience– ”As soon as you get the hang of it it throws a new

challenge at you”• There is reluctance and resistance– “I’d rather do two Saturday workshops than one virtual

classroom session”

Enhancing staff experience

Discussion-of practice-of barriers-of limits

To support

To inspire

Collaboration-for learning-for design-for delivery

Understanding-as learners-of learners

Evidence-to inspire-to support-for development

Sources and resourcesALT workshop resources

http://archive.alt.ac.uk/conference/altc2012.alt.ac.uk/talks/28046.html

Teaching and Learning Conversation (Webinar, MMU) Spring 2016

Cornelius (2014) Facilitating in a demanding environment: experiences of teaching in virtual classrooms using web conferencing. BJET 45(2) 260-271

Cornelius, Gordon and Schyma (2014) Live online learning: strategies for the web conferencing classroom. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

s.cornelius@abdn.ac.uk @sarahcornelius

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