Practical Online Teaching Tips

By Tim Neumann, on 3 April 2020

As everybody scrambles to get their course online, sometimes it is better to talk things through, rather than getting lost in an ever-growing forest of written documentation and guides.

Our series of Practical Online Teaching Tips aim to provide examples derived from practice. These are recordings of drop-in webinars at UCL, which are made available online.

Find all videos on UCL Media Central.

Episode guide (new recording made available every 1-2 days):

1. Keep it simple: Tips for online session patterns.
2. Keep it clean: Tips for your Moodle course structure.
3. Keep it accessible: Hacks to improve inclusion.
   with Dr Jennifer Rode (UCL Knowledge Lab).
4. Keep it manageable: Running online discussions.
5. Keep it fun: Social aspects in Moodle and Collaborate.
6. Collaborate: Experiences from the IOE Academic Writing Centre.
   with Louise Green and Katherine Koulle.
7. Wellbeing: Designing wellbeing into your online course.
   with Sam Ahern (UCL Digital Education).
8. Forums: Designing discussion prompts.
   with Dr Eileen Kennedy (UCL Knowledge Lab/RELIEF Centre).

Moving Online

By Tim Neumann, on 18 March 2020

The Learning Designer team at the UCL Knowledge Lab has created a number of typical session patterns to help a quick transition from Face-to-Face to Online delivery.

Each case contains a step-by-step workflow on how to transition the session, with links to further support sources.

Do you want to see additional patterns?

Contact us with your current session format and we will investigate whether we can include this in the list of patterns below.

Available patterns

• Lecture/Seminar with PowerPoint > Video with discussion forum
• Seminar > Live webinar
• Lecture/Seminar with voice only > Audio or video with discussion forum
• Interactive Lecture > Interactive online session
• Debate > Discussion forum and webinar
• Debate > Discussion forum only

Pattern Overview

Full page (Word online)

Moving online: Lecture/Seminar with Powerpoint

By Tim Neumann, on 18 March 2020

Back to Overview

Downloads:

• Instructional flowchart (PDF)
• Instructions as accessible text (PDF)

Links:

• Exemplar (traditional format)
• Exemplar (online format)

Moving online: Seminar to Live Webinar

By Tim Neumann, on 18 March 2020

Back to Overview

Downloads:

• Instructional flowchart
• Instructions as accessible text

Links:

• Exemplar (online format)

Moving Online: Lecture/Seminar with voice only

By Tim Neumann, on 18 March 2020

Downloads:

• Instructional flowchart (PDF)
• Instructions as accessible text

Links:

• Exemplar (traditional format)
• Exemplar (online format)

Moving online: Interactive Lecture

By Tim Neumann, on 18 March 2020

Downloads:

• Instructional flowchart (PDF)
• Instructions as accessible text

Links:

• Exemplar (traditional format)
• Exemplar (online format)

Moving online: Debate (webinar)

By Tim Neumann, on 18 March 2020

Downloads:

• Instructional flowchart
• Instructions as accessible text

Links:

• Exemplar (traditional format)
• Exemplar (online format)

Moving online: Debate (forum only)

By Tim Neumann, on 18 March 2020

Downloads:

• Instructional flowchart (PDF)
• Instructions as accessible text (PDF)

Links:

• Exemplar (traditional format)
• Exemplar (online format)

CANCELLED: UCL Knowledge Lab Series: Cultural ecology for framing digital education in our disparate culture and its disruptions

By Tim Neumann, on 13 February 2020

This seminar is now cancelled.

In this seminar, Dr Ben Bachmair will discuss cultural ecology and its integrative approach to the running cultural development with disparate educational options and tasks.

19 March 2020, 12:30pm-1.30pm GMT
UCL Knowledge Lab

Description

The term ‘digital education’ is helpful when identifying semiosis with digital representations in the new individualised, mobile and internet-based communication.

It also avoids the familiar terms of ‘media’ and ‘media education’ that belong to the former linear style of communication.

Taking an online video as an example, Dr Bachmair demonstrates how it can be framed by discussing cultural disruptions within a disparate culture in an educational sense. These cultural disruptions include not the least the transformation of space to context. Further, individualisation changes social reality into egocentric worlds of personal experiences.

He explores the intention to look for cultural sustainability in the processes of cultural disruptions, by interpreting sustainability educationally in the tradition of the European Enlightenment. Among others, Rousseau is also on the agenda of cultural ecology.

Further Information on UCL IOE Website

UCL Knowledge Lab Seminar Series: Designing the future of higher education through partnerships with industry and students

By Tim Neumann, on 12 February 2020

In his seminar, Panos Vlachopoulos will discuss the process and lessons learnt from revamping one of the largest degrees at Macquarie University.

Thursday, 13 February 2020, 12:30pm-1:30pm GMT
UCL Knowledge Lab

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Description

One of the challenges for higher education is identifying valuable transferable skills that industry and society need and developing courses that enable students to acquire these skills though their degrees.

Institutions need to develop university courses that equip students with transferable skills and the ability to articulate these skills to employers or when seeking further study.

Professor Panos Vlachopoulos will highlight the key findings from the design workshops that developed the new Macquarie BA framework.

As part of the Bachelor of Arts 2020 redesign project, the Faculty of Arts used a design thinking based methodology to run a series of workshops. He will also detail the key aspects of the revamped degree and the plans for ongoing involvement of industry and students as part of the delivery of the new curriculum.

The opportunity for discussion and feedback will be provided and welcomed.

Details on UCL IOE Website