The Office for Human Resources Management & Development, in collaboration with the Office for Professional Academic Development, will be offering an online training course for UM academic members staff.
Course Faciliatators: Professor Colla J. MacDonald & Dr James Cilia
Study-unit code: OPD5002
Target Audience: Academic staff
Level: Beginners & Intermediate
Course duration: 9 weeks
Dates: 23 February to 4 May 2022. The first session consists of a 2-hour online Zoom workshop on Wednesday 23 February 2022 from 15:00 until 17:00.
Delivery mode: Mainly asynchronous
Academic staff at the University of Malta are invited to participate in the professional development course: Designing, Delivering and Evaluating online study-units. This course is designed to provide academic staff, who have little or no experience with online teaching, with the support to transfer study-units from a face-to-face to a blended or online format. .
This 9-week course is designed to provide academic staff, who have little or no experience with online teaching, with the support to transfer study-units from a face-to-face to a blended or online format. We will be taking a small break during Easter recess from 11 to 24 April 2022.
The main goal of the course is to provide participants with the basic knowledge and skills required to design, deliver and evaluate one online session in a study-unit while experiencing what it is like to be an online learner.
Professor Colla J. MacDonald (Senior Research Advisor, University of Malta) together with Dr James Cilia (E-Learning Unit IT Services, University of Malta) will be facilitating this course.
There will also be support available from IT Services following the workshop series if you forget how to do something, have additional questions or need further assistance.
Academics interested in following this course are invited to register online.