| CODE | OPD5002 | ||||||
| TITLE | Designing, Delivering and Evaluating Online Study-Units | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Office for Professional Academic Development | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The course provides academic staff with the knowledge and skills required to design, deliver and evaluate blended (selected in-class sessions replaced with online teaching) and fully online study-units. Academic staff will have the opportunity to develop their understanding of effective online teaching practices and the relationship of these practices to the use of different technologies. Academics will also be encouraged to progressively design and reflect upon their own online learning, assessment or resource for use in their study-units. The course also addresses practical issues in developing online study-units, some of which involve technology such as: discussion boards, open educational resources, tools to monitor online student activities and video-recording applications. The course is delivered online to provide academics with an online learning and teaching experience and to accommodate their busy schedules. The course starts with a class-based session (2hr) to introduce participants to each other and the facilitators, to explain how the course is organised on the VLE, to communicate course expectations etc. This course requires a commitment of 6 hours per week of “study time”. This includes reading course materials, viewing recorded lectures, contributing to online discussions, writing activities and practical implementation of learning. Study-unit Aims: The main aims of the course are: (a) to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to design, deliver and evaluate blended (selected in-class sessions replaced with online teaching) and fully online study-units; (b) to develop the participants’ understanding and critical reflection on online learning, through active engagement in an immersive online learning and teaching experience. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - articulate a critical awareness of developments in online learning, evaluating how the use of technology will best integrate with current theory and practice in education; - demonstrate a critical understanding of the guiding principles of effective teaching for learning in blended and online environments; - apply these principles and the experience of class-based teaching to design, deliver and evaluate an element of online activity in a study-unit. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - use various technologies including discussion boards, tools to monitor the students' online activities in the VLE and video-recording applications; - utilise advanced research skills to systematically develop their knowledge so that they can make informed choices in integrating technology into student learning experience so as to engage and challenge the student; - use technology to present material and to communicate complex ideas in a clear, organised, stimulating and engaging way; - work constructively with colleagues to evaluate and support one another's work; - engage in a systematic critical reflection on their own and their colleague's academic practice with a view to its enhancement. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: The study-unit will make use of Internet readings, periodical articles available through the UM Library, videos recorded facilitator and online videos. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-Requisite study-units: It is recommended that participants following this course would have successfully completed the 'Foundations of University Teaching & Learning'. This course will be accredited in the future. This study-unit is assessed on a Pass/Fail basis. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Online Learning | ||||||
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The University makes every effort to ensure that the published Courses Plans, Programmes of Study and Study-Unit information are complete and up-to-date at the time of publication. The University reserves the right to make changes in case errors are detected after publication.
The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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