Planning and Designing ‘face-to-face’ Activities for the Online Environment Engaging learners online

Samantha MossLearning Technologist

• Distance Learning• All of the course is online• Live lectures delivered via Virtual

Classroom Software

• Blended Learning• Mixture of face-to-face and online learning activities• The ‘blend’ is decided at the start of the development process

• Classroom-Based Learning• Face-to-face sessions with online tasks & online submission of

assessments (Tech-Enhanced Learning)

Types of courses:

Building your online classroom

You must consider:

Your site needs to be as clean and as uncluttered as possible

Learning outcomes and assessment details should be clearly visible

Contact details of key individuals are easy to locate

Clear signposting to activities & information

Look at your unit’s scheme of work1) What is your blend?

2) Online activities to replace face-to-face ones or ‘in addition?’

3) What is it you want your students to do? •Communicate? •Collaborate? •Share images/files?•Self-audit/quiz? •Research? •Submit work for feedback/peer assessment?

4) Plan your learning outcome first before deciding on the tools

Moodle 2 tools: http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/03/15/a-moodle-2-version-of-the-moodle-tool-guide/

Examples of courses

Blended Learning (demo site): http://learn.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=288

•Pre-workshop activities•‘On the day’ workshop activities•Post workshop activities

Distance Learning (demo site): http://learn.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=224

•‘Getting to know you’ induction task•Weekly activity books to work through•Prep-work for Scheduled Learning Sessions•Skype tutorials•Study Partner activities•Reflective journal

Sites & resources demo’d

• Succeed@Solent Lite:•http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/succeedlite

• Successful Study Guide•http://learn.solent.ac.uk/success

• Equality & Diversity ‘taster’ unit•http://learn.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=228

November 2010

Contact me:

Email: Samantha.Moss@solent.ac.uk

Twitter:@samwisemoss

Social media sites: http://about.me/samwise

Main areas of interest:Mahara ePortfolios, Social Media, Employability, E-Learning & Widening Participation