Moving towards Flexible Learning & Teaching (Beyond lockdown) 2022

In this section, you will find a variety of skills, tips and tools you can use to facilitate online teaching and learning. 

It is recommended that communication is vital for students in a Blended/online class.  See here an example of a Weekly plan for using Moodle & Zoom for blended delivery.

Try using this template as a Weekly Module overview guide to add to Moodle each week to set expectations, with goals, weekly objectives and activities to expect. This will help students  with time management, clarify expectations and self efficacy. 

If your course uses blended learning, the items below will be useful for the online part of your course. 

TIP - While in the face2face space, refer to the teaching and learning that happens online, and while teaching online, refer back to the learning and teaching in the face2face space. This will help build a coherent and truly experience for the students.

• Identify the skills you already have, and which to develop further, from the 10 step guide 'How to be a better online teacher'
• Read some practical examples of how to engage students by using some standard moodle features
• Implement some Active Learning activities AND read evidence that it works!
• Read some top tips on teaching online - Supporting your learners, and supporting learning. Which ones are new to you?
• Look at this infographic about polling in Zoom
• Watch video to see how to create a poll in Zoom, or watch this one
• Find out where to get help on setting up Moodle Activities 

See here some easy to follow infographics from The Education Hub: Research Led Hub

• All learning is influenced by our emotions, check out some tips on leveraging the power of positive emotions.
• Do you want you students to retain knowledge, check out some tips on how we can influence the memory while teaching 
• Would you like to elicit more communication online or in the classroom, find out 10 top tips for effective questioning