“You can’t learn to swim by watching YouTube.” Developing staff digital capability through immersive online learning.

From Tom Foster July 05, 2019

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In this session we will share our journey: designing, developing and delivering two SEDA (Supporting and Leading Educational Change) courses that support, award and accredit colleagues' development. These courses are accredited under the Professional Development Framework (PDF) named awards: Supporting Technology-Enhanced Learning and Leading and Embedding Technology-Enhanced Learning.

Both of these courses: ‘Learning to Tutor Online’ and ‘Digital Transformations’ promote the effective use of current and emerging technologies to support and enhance learning and teaching. The aim to: “ensure students are inspired and empowered to achieve their full potential at a 21st Century University.” What makes these courses so special? We believe that by designing a course that encourages tutors/participants to learn online, utilise technology and ‘become a student’, there will be greater opportunities for authentic (Wiggins, 1998), experiential, ‘deep’ learning.

To maintain a relevance to the approaches and technologies, and ensure effectiveness of learning and teaching, we engage in iterative and summative evaluation processes. This occurs before, during and after each course and utilises accrediting body (SEDA), participant, tutor and external examiner feedback. We will share some of the lessons we have learnt and how we are using this feedback to improve our offering. We aim to ensure staff develop the knowledge of not just ‘how’, but importantly ‘why’ to engage with and adopt approaches and technologies that support learning and teaching.

Jon Rhodes, Gemma Witton & Elora Marston - University of Wolverhampton

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