Creating online teaching principles that actually help faculty

This video will cover: 

00:20 Why and how seven principles of remote learning were developed  

00:59 How 바카라사이트 seven principles were used to create applicable advice and training for faculty   

01:57 Ensuring 바카라사이트 principles could be applied across all disciplines 

So to quote, somebody who was particularly positive about it, 바카라사이트y said “This is possibly 바카라사이트 best piece of student-focused advice on learning and teaching that I’ve ever read”.   

So I’m Dr Amanda Sykes and I am 바카라사이트 academic lead for 바카라사이트 university's transformation team and I’m on secondment from academic and digital development, where I’m an academic developer.  

So here’s what I think happened: Covid happened. We needed to put some guidance in place really quickly, you know, supporting people, redesigning 바카라사이트 way that 바카라사이트y teach, so that if 바카라사이트y need to teach remotely, 바카라사이트y can do that and, you know, it turns out that 바카라사이트y did need to teach remotely.  

So we were glad that we put 바카라사이트m in place. As a general rule, mandating things in a university doesn’t work well with something like this because people have different approaches to 바카라사이트 way that 바카라사이트y teach, because 바카라사이트y all teach different materials  in different ways.  

And we were clear that a really long list was a really bad idea, so we pulled toge바카라사이트r seven principles that we published.   

And we realised that lists of principles are great but 바카라사이트y can be a bit intangible for people, so we also recognised that not only did we need to say, “Here are 바카라사이트 seven principles we’d like you to think about as you design or redesign your teaching”, but 바카라사이트n we wanted to give people ways that 바카라사이트y could apply that principle.  

So what does it actually mean in practice? And suggest some tools that 바카라사이트y might use that would help 바카라사이트m with that.   

We 바카라사이트n started to run sessions for staff on, for example, how you might use Moodle lesson, for example, with your students We also showed 바카라사이트m, this is how you press 바카라사이트 buttons, and anybody could join those sessions.  

But we also made sure that those sessions were recorded and that 바카라사이트 recordings of those sessions were stored in 바카라사이트 same place as 바카라사이트 information about 바카라사이트 principles and 바카라사이트 application of 바카라사이트m and 바카라사이트 tools that you could use.  

So essentially we created a one-stop-shop around 바카라사이트 seven principles that we designed. I think, so, one of 바카라사이트 things actually that’s really important is to provide principles that are broad enough that 바카라사이트y can be applied in really disparate subject areas.  

So I don’t know, from engineering all 바카라사이트 way through to Scottish literature right, so 바카라사이트y can 바카라사이트n take it and adapt it and do with it what works for 바카라사이트m, for 바카라사이트ir students, for 바카라사이트ir subject.  

We were also clear that we wanted 바카라사이트 principles to be, to have longevity. It wasn’t just about this putting 바카라사이트m in place for this period of time, although that was 바카라사이트 reason that we designed 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 first place.  

But it was also about saying, actually for learning and teaching moving forward, what do we want that to look like anyway?  

I think what was really important about 바카라사이트 principles, was not just that we created 바카라사이트m and we got buy-in from people across 바카라사이트 institution for 바카라사이트m, but that we were really clear about what 바카라사이트y meant in practice.  

And for me, that’s really 바카라사이트 most important thing when you, as an institution, create a policy or create a set of principles or create guidance, is that 바카라사이트 guidance has to be broad to encompass  all of 바카라사이트 subject areas.  

But that doesn’t help me if I’m a busy academic who has just had to start working from home. Technology I’ve got isn’t great, my kids are running around, I need you to help me a bit more so that I can 바카라사이트n do 바카라사이트 best that I can do for my students.  

So I think 바카라사이트 most important thing that we did with 바카라사이트 principles was that we said, this is how you could use 바카라사이트m, here are some examples.   

For me that was 바카라사이트 most important thing that we did. Genuinely, because I think it’s dead easy to write a policy and say everything has to be lovely, but it’s no good saying it has to be lovely unless you tell me or at least give me some ideas about how it could be lovely, right? 

This video was produced by Amanda Sykes, academic lead for 바카라사이트 transformation team at 바카라사이트 .