Introduction to Effective Online Distance Learning

Online workshop: Introduction to Effective Distance Learning – Monday 11 April

by Helen Walmsley – Thursday, 17 March 2011, 04:04 PM

Online workshop: Introduction to Effective Online Distance Learning

Monday 11 April 09:00am – 17:00pm (BST) See your time here

Are you planning or reviewing your online distance learning provision? Would you like to explore ways of planning and designing the learning to save time, engage your students and be more effective? Would you like to reflect on a range of varied case studies and discuss them with other distance learning designers and tutors? There will also be chance to explore VLEs, social media tools, mobile technologies and test them out. This one-day workshop will include 3 sessions:

• Introduction to Online Distance Learning – models and issues
• Distance Learning case studies – a variety to explore, compare and review
• Tools for Distance Learning – delivery, communication, assessment and collaboration tools

Each session will be delivered with a combination of live web-conferences, forum discussions, group tasks and experimentation.

This workshop is aimed at practitioners new to, or with limited experience of delivering distance learning online. There will be an e-buddy system and plenty of support over the day. The facilitators are experienced designers and deliverers of distance learning.

If you would like to book a place, please email Gill Marino ldiadmin@staffs.ac.uk. The fee is £50 (free places available for staff and SURF associates)