Understanding Online Learning Methods 2 (UOLM2) November 2020

Announcements

Course dates &amp; timings for each unit of study

Course Outline (November 2020)

Comprehensive (technical) guidance and support on tools available for remote delivery

Synchronous session (18th November, 2020): Meeting the team &amp; touching base - how is unit 1 going?

Unit 1: Theories of learning and their application to online/ blended learning and teaching

Unit 1.1 Identifying the main learning and teaching theories applicable to HE (ILO1 & ILO2)

1. Educational Learning Theories

Ertmer and Newby (2013) (text used in the above Moodle Lesson)

From sage on the stage to guide by the side (King, 1993)

Pedagogy of the oppressed (Friere 1872)

Constructive Learning: The role of the learner (Simmons, 1993)

Unit 1.2: Blended/Online Learning – from theory to practice (ILO2 & ILO3)

1. Blended/Online Learning - re-imagining the continuum

2. What happens to our students’ experience of learning, in and out of the ‘classroom’? (excerpt from the Pandemic Pedagogy Handbook)

3. Some final thoughts

Online presence table

The Pandemic Pedagogy Handbook

Constructivism-based blended learning in HE (Al-Huneidi and Schreurs, 2012)

Unit 1: Quiz (completes the unit )

Unit 1: Final quiz

Unit 2.1: Designing for Student Engagement (ILO1)

1. An Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education (HE)

2a) Asynchronous and Synchronous learning to engage students

2b) Asynchronous and Synchronous activities within Moodle.

2c) Choosing asynchronous / synchronous options for ILOs

3. Do you know your BLE/ Moodle tools?

4. Moodle Tools - how can they engage students and support effective learning and teaching?

An online engagement framework for Higher Education (Redman et. al, 2018)

Targeted Active Learning Tool Kit (TALK)

Comprehensive guidance and support on tools available for remote delivery

Unit 2.2: Designing to be inclusive (ILO2)

2. Fostering an inclusive environment

3. Accessibility of teaching materials

Embedding academic skills

Comprehensive guidance and support on tools available for remote delivery

How to set up a Group on Moodle

Using Groups for Effective Classroom Management

A set of posters to help you design for accessibility

Unit 2.3: Designing to meet SOAS Blended Learning expectations, minimum BLE standards, and student expectations (ILO3)

Standards, Templates &amp; The SOAS Blend

80:20 E-moderating Plan (Salmon, 2007)

Gilly Salmon's 5-stage model

Comprehensive guidance and support on tools available for remote delivery.

Gaining Access to Moodle Courses

Unit 2: Quiz (completes the unit)

Unit 2 Quiz final

Feedback on Units 1 & 2

UOLM2 Feedback form

Optional Units A–E

Optional Unit A: Innovative Assessment in Online/ Blended Learning

1. Read: Writing better assignments in the post-Covid19 era: approaches to good task design (Brown &amp; Sambell, 2020) (ILO1)

2. Recorded Interview on Innovative Assessment (ILO1 &amp; ILO2)

4. Assessment &amp; feedback (ILO3)

Learner-oriented assessment

Sample Self and Peer-assessment process

Comprehensive guidance and support on tools available for remote delivery.

Optional Unit B: Using Moodle Forums

1. Using forums in blended and online learning (Moodle book)

2. 10 forum activities for constructive learning and collaborative engagement

Developing online communities using Moodle forums - tips and tricks

Comprehensive guidance and support on tools available for remote delivery (copy)

10 Forum activities for constructive learning and collaborative engagement (printer friendly)

Using Moodle Forums Quiz

Optional Unit C: Applying Language Pedagogy Online

1. Read this first: Approaches to Language Teaching and Learning (ILO1)

2. Syllabus Development (ILO1 &amp; ILO2)

3. Language learning activities (ILO3)

4. Targeted Active Learning Tool Kit (TALK)

Optional Unit D: Embedding Work-based/related Learning Online

1 - 3 Embedding Work based/related learning online

4. Embedding Work-based/related Learning Online Quiz

Optional Unit E: Offering Students an Assessment Choice (online)

1. What are some of the reasons we do not offer students a choice of assessment? Contribute to a collective list of ideas using this google doc

2. Read: Busting myths on alternative assessments

3. Read the following guidance on offering students a choice of assessment

4. Assessment types and student effort

5. Equity template for offering students choice

A Practitioner’s Guide to Choice of Assessment Methods Within a Module

Course dates & timings for each unit of study

Synchronous session (18th November, 2020): Meeting the team & touching base - how is unit 1 going?

Standards, Templates & The SOAS Blend

1. Read: Writing better assignments in the post-Covid19 era: approaches to good task design (Brown & Sambell, 2020) (ILO1)

2. Recorded Interview on Innovative Assessment (ILO1 & ILO2)

4. Assessment & feedback (ILO3)

2. Syllabus Development (ILO1 & ILO2)