Tag Archives: Online teaching

Online learning platforms aren’t enough – lecturers need the right technical skills

Online learning platforms aren’t enough – lecturers need the right technical skills

Technology has become the centre of our lives. It has also changed how university students learn and how lecturers teach. Some institutions had already shifted to some form of online teaching and learning before 2020. Then the onset of the COVID pandemic made digitised education commonplace in many parts of the world. But it’s not enough for universities […] … learn more→

‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education

‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education

All Victorian school students will be learning remotely from Wednesday. Prior to the state’s premier Daniel Andrews announcing a tightening of restrictions over the weekend, only students in prep to Year 10 in Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire were learning from home. But on Wednesday, schools will close for Year 11 and 12 students in Melbourne and […] … learn more→

A parable for online teaching

A parable for online teaching

The early 1930s. Pre Nazi Germany. Walter Benjamin, philosopher and cultural critic, regularly presents a twenty minute “book lore”programme on German radio. In his story “On the minute”  Benjamin tells us that when his programmes were first commissioned, the department manager told him that the most elementary mistake novice broadcasters made was to believe that they […] … learn more→

Coronavirus: 14 simple tips for better online teaching

Coronavirus: 14 simple tips for better online teaching

  The past few days have seen increasing numbers of schools and universities across the world announce that they are moving to online-only learning. Hundreds of thousands of teachers are busy working to move their face-to-face lessons online. Designing online courses takes significant time and effort. Right now, however, we need a simpler formula. Here […] … learn more→

Bitten by the online bug

The label \”online lecturer\” used to bother me. You didn\’t see teachers in a traditional classroom calling themselves \”in-the-flesh lecturers\” or \”face-to-face lecturers.\” I feared that if I became an online lecturer, my colleagues might start to question the quality of my teaching or my reputation—as though the \”online\” bit would make what I did […] … learn more→