Middlesex University online hands on developmental courses.
challenge: Teachers ask to teach online with no experience as students online.
The University is looking to move to 100% online essay submission. This is a challenge with the resources available.
The team decided to take an online approach. The 3 week course, taken as a group by programme teams, hangs on discussion boards, self-study skills and scheduled online meetings. They compare traditional approaches to online approaches. Interactive video tutorials used to get participants to interact. Staff are asked to compare online and traditional approaches. They discuss benefits and limitations of the various approaches and engage with the technologies as a student and member of staff. For example for Turnitin, they both submit assignments as students and set them up and mark as staff. They are then asked to evaluate through an online survey.
The approach appeared to take out the fear of the unknown. It helped to share and agree on approaches. Time is still an issue for staff. One lesson was to ask staff when the best times are. Terminology is also a barrier potentially. Many staff still want to print and then undertake the activity.
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