This presentation gave examples of ways Solent approach course design

1. Planning and Designing ‘face-to-face’
Activities for the Online Environment
Engaging learners online
Samantha Moss
Learning Technologist

2. Types of courses:
• Distance Learning
• All of the course is online
• Live lectures delivered via Virtual
Classroom Software
• Blended Learning
• Mixture of face-to-face and online learning activities
• The ‘blend’ is decided at the start of the development process
• Classroom-Based Learning
• Face-to-face sessions with online tasks & online submission of
assessments (Tech-Enhanced Learning)

3. Building your online classroom
You must consider:
Your site needs to be as clean and as
uncluttered as possible
Learning outcomes and assessment
details should be clearly visible
Contact details of key individuals are
easy to locate
Clear signposting to activities & information

4. Look at your unit’s scheme of work
1) What is your blend?
2) Online activities to replace face-to-face ones or
‘in addition?’
3) What is it you want your students to do?
• Communicate?
• Collaborate?
• Share images/files?
• Self-audit/quiz?
• Research?
• Submit work for feedback/peer assessment?
4) Plan your learning outcome first before deciding on the tools

5. Moodle 2 tools:
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/03/15/a-moodle-2-
version-of-the-moodle-tool-guide/

6. Examples of courses
Blended Learning (demo site):
http://learn.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=288
• Pre-workshop activities
• ‘On the day’ workshop activities
• Post workshop activities
Distance Learning (demo site):
http://learn.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=224
• ‘Getting to know you’ induction task
• Weekly activity books to work through
• Prep-work for Scheduled Learning Sessions
• Skype tutorials
• Study Partner activities
• Reflective journal

7. Sites & resources demo’d
• Succeed@Solent Lite:
• http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/succeedlite
• Successful Study Guide
• http://learn.solent.ac.uk/success
• Equality & Diversity ‘taster’ unit
• http://learn.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=228
November 2010

8. Contact me:
Email:
Samantha.Moss@solent.ac.uk
Twitter:
@samwisemoss
Social media sites:
http://about.me/samwise
Main areas of interest:
Mahara ePortfolios, Social Media, Employability, E-Learning & Widening
Participation