Full course description
This module has been designed to assist in designing and delivering online and blended teaching to engage students and foster meaningful learning experiences. It provides an introduction to the University of Newcastle context and supported educational technologies, key considerations when designing, implementing, or facilitating online learning and teaching, and space for reflection on your contextual influences on your teaching.
The module is broken down as follows:
Introduction to Online and Blended Teaching
- Considerations of technology use in online and blended teaching
- Purposely designed online and blended learning
- Digital literacy and capabilities
Content Design and Delivery
- Planning your online or blended course
- Designing for online and blended delivery
- Navigation and user experience design
- Creating video content
- Creating audio content
- Use of media
- Interaction and activities: educational technology and tools
Facilitation
- Setting the scene
- Fostering active learning
- Evaluation and quality assurance
Assessment, Marking, and Feedback
- Assessment
- Academic Integrity
- Generative AI (GenAI) in assessment
- Marking
- Video and audio feedback
Where to From Here?
- Wrapping up
- Student success and support resources