Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or are looking for ideas to start enhancing your existing online or blended modules, these concise resources have been developed to offer practical guidance on a range of topics including designing and planning your online modules, integrating new technologies into your teaching, and repurposing existing content for your virtual learning environment.
In addition to these resources, we encourage those new to teaching in the virtual learning environment – or anyone interested in enriching their students’ online learning experience – to consult our LTTC VLE Baseline Checklist. This document comprises a set of good practice recommendations against which lecturers may choose to benchmark the modules that they teach fully, or partially, using TU Dublin’s two VLE’s: Moodle and Brightspace.
Thinking about your online course design
- The Skills & Competencies of the Online Lecturer - Develop and strengthen your online teaching skills to promote and facilitate student success
- Designing online collaborative activities - Plan and write objectives for your collaborative, virtual learning sessions
- Designing and structuring your module - Review your existing module descriptors and optimise the alignment your learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, and assessments, for online learning
- Planning your teaching event - Reflect on the ‘teaching events’ that occur in your online classroom and the types of learning that they are intended to bring about
- Constructive alignment - Learn about the concept of ‘constructive alignment’ and how it can be used to ensure that module learning outcomes are realised in an online context
- LTTC VLE Baseline Checklist - this is a set of 'good practice' recommendations for the design and management of modules in TU Dublin's virtual learning environments
Preparing your content for online learning
- Repurposing your existing content - Strategies for adapting your existing module content and organising and aligning it effectively within the VLE
- Finding Complementary Materials for your Students - Short guide to sources of additional and complementary content for your modules and programmes
Evaluating your use of technology
- Integrating technologies to add educational value - Guidance on evaluating the effectiveness of new learning technologies as you integrate them into your teaching practice
- Integrating digital tools to teaching material - this resource will help you to promote engagement and understand how to make your teaching more learner-centred; it includes some guidance on using Padlet, Socrative and more