Last week we had a very productive teaching and learning away day. The aim was to reflect on the current ways in which we design and support our DCU Connected students. A background document was circulated prior to the meeting, which collated various Learning Design frameworks. We identified two overarching themes to improving our teaching and learning:
New and more systematic design of online, open distance teaching and learning. In terms of thoughtful and explicit design, we need to Ensure the workload across modules in consistent Set up either a week by week or month by month schedule Indicate the indicative time needed to complete activities and content and assignments Split content into core and additional (extension) Supporting, and working with, online, open distance learners and teachers (learning students)
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