Building academic survival skills online: a collaborative, team-based approach to online course design and production
Year: 2014
Type: other
Abstract: The growing accessibility and use of online educational technology has seen the provision of enabling 'distance' education move from paper-based traditional methods of delivery to the development of wholly online programs.With this has come the necessity to develop new approaches to course design that go beyond simply placing face-to-face teaching materials in a Learning Management System (LMS).To achieve the desired learning outcomes and encourage student retention, online course design and production requires not only specialist content knowledge, but also knowledge and implementation of: online pedagogical practices; instructional/educational design that facilitates and enhances learner experience in the online environment; and current educational technologies.Because multiple skills and knowledge are required, achieving quality outcomes for students in the online learning environment can be problematic if course design and production follows the traditional model of individual academics developing their courses in isolation.However, a collaborative team-based approach, which draws on the expertise of a range of professional, teaching and academic staff, is a way forward.This paper describes the collaborative process of redesigning a traditional face-to-face academic skills bridging course into a fully online course at the University of Newcastle and discusses the subsequent development of a model for a collaborative team-based approach to course design, production and evaluation.Further, the paper includes a discussion of the value of collaborative approaches to online course design and the concept of 'collective ownership'.
Authors: Elizabeth Goode, Evonne Irwin
Language: English
Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2522235805