What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. This case study examines how the use of a wiki can help a teacher effectively facilitate student collaboration with on-campus or distance students.  It discusses the importance of providing technical support for both staff and students, planning clearly defined collaborative learning activities, and designing relevant assessment strategies to help support students develop effective teamwork skills.

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Using wikis for student collaboration - Case study

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. In this case study, Mark Schulz from the University of Queensland examines the concept of using the Internet to remotely access laboratory equipment to conduct experiments in science or engineering. In particular, it demonstrates one of several experiments that can be conducted online using the iLabCentral website developed by Northwestern University. It explores benefits and opportunities for student learning offered by iLabs, by demonstrating how online learning materials in the iLabCentral website utilise remotely access specialist laboratory equipment made available by the Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology (CEIT) at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane Australia.            

iLabs: Online access to remote laboratories - Case study

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. The Learning to Teach Online project is a free professional development resource designed by COFA Online at the University of New South Wales, in association with the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) to help teachers from any discipline, whether experienced in online teaching or not, gain a working understanding of successful online teaching pedagogies that they can apply in their own unique teaching situations. This episode gives an overview of the aims of the project, and describes how teachers can get the most out of Learning to Teach Online.    

Welcome to Learning to Teach Online

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. While developing effective teamwork and collaboration skills are considered important to the learning process, many students find group work challenging and difficult. In this episode we explore how Internet technologies can improve the collaborative process within online teamwork, and offer some useful strategies for facilitation and assessment.  

Online teamwork and collaboration

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. Web 2.0 tools can be useful for any situation where discussion and content sharing is desired, and where accessing current information in certain topic areas can be advantageous for learning. This case study examines how and why Lubna Alam from the University of Canberra used the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) as a central hub that both provided her students with easy access to the class blogs, wiki and Twitter, and a place where information from the different technologies was amalgamated. The integration of web 2.0 technologies into the learning process is examined, highlighting how this can improve student engagement, communication and collaboration. 

Teaching with web 2.0 technologies: Twitter, wikis & blogs - Case study

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. So many resources are now being freely shared online that it can be advantageous for teachers and students to develop an understanding of appropriate and legal use. This episode identifies different types of online resources including scholarly material available online through libraries, and highlights copyright considerations for using existing material from the Internet in your teaching. It also discusses the benefits of Open Educational Resources (OER), where teachers can freely access and contribute to a wide range of learning and teaching resources from institutions around the world. 

Integrating online resources into your teaching

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. Take a tour of the iLabCentral website in this Technical Glossary video. This website has been developed by Northwestern University as a creative commons resource for all science students and teachers around the world. Find out how to give your students access to a range of lesson plans, class workbooks and experiments - each controlling real laboratory equipment in labs around the world. Please also visit the Learning to Teach Online project website to watch the related case study called iLabs: Online access to remote laboratories.

Using the iLabCentral resource

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. This Technical Glossary video aims to give you an understanding of the social media platform Twitter http://twitter.com. The concept of tweets is discussed, and the video also demonstrates how to set up an account, how to find and follow other Twitter users, tweet and send direct messages to users, and how to use hash tags in teaching contexts.  Please also watch the related case study called Teaching with web 2.0 technologies: Twitter, wikis & blogs - Case study.  

Twitter basics - Technical glossary

Free course begins July 2014. Enrol now! Visit <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/ltto">https://www.coursera.org/course/ltto</a> for more information.The award winning Learning to Teach Online project has been redeveloped into an innovative MOOC, free and open to all educators. This 8 week course is designed to help you develop a working understanding of successful online teaching strategies that you can apply in your own practice. It offers you a flexible, reflective and personal learning experience - enabling you to tailor your learning based upon your own goals, requirements and level of commitment. We hope to see you there!

Free course begins July 2014. Enrol now! Visit https://www.coursera.org/course/ltto for more information.The award winning Learning to Teach Online project has been redeveloped into an innovative MOOC, free and open to all educators. This 8 week course is designed to help you develop a working understanding of successful online teaching strategies that you can apply in your own practice. It offers you a flexible, reflective and personal learning experience - enabling you to tailor your learning based upon your own goals, requirements and level of commitment. We hope to see you there!

LTTO MOOC for educators

A video-based program helping teachers in 138 countries step into the virtual classroom, has earned its developers a prestigious international award.Learning to Teach Online is a series of online video and PDF resources developed at UNSW’s College of Fine Arts. Funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, the project supports teachers in any discipline who are new to online learning.Project leaders, COFA’s Simon McIntyre and Karin Watson, have been awarded the 2012 MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources. They will be presenting at the 5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online Learning in the United States later this year.Learning To Teach Online is no newcomer to awards - the project won the 2011 Innovation and Excellence Award from the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (Ascilite). For more info, check the LTTO website via the link at right.  

COFA Online Cracks the MERLOT

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. This case study examines how technology can be used to support an active learning strategy within face-to-face Chemistry classes. Both in-class polling software and online lectures are used as part of a comprehensive teaching strategy, designed to enable students to develop critical thinking and analytical skills. While in-class polling is not an online process, it is included within this case study to highlight how different types of technology can be used together effectively to support classroom teaching, when integrated with a carefully considered pedagogical approach.  

Using online lectures to support active learning - Case study

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. When teaching larger classes, an online environment can provide many opportunities for increased student engagement, group work and self testing. In this case study Professor Alan Crosky, from The University of New South Wales, explains how he uses a blended learning approach in his Engineering Materials and Chemistry class with 700 first year students. He highlights the importance of providing student orientation and support when first introducing an online component, and discusses the benefits of integrating online tutorials and resources, group work, peer assessment and self-testing into the class.    

Using online environments for teaching large classes - Case study

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. This case study examines how ePortfolios, used in conjunction with blogs, can encourage students to become more critically reflective learners. The benefits and challenges of using ePortfolios are discussed, along with strategies for providing sufficient technical and pedagogical support, to enable teachers and students to confidently use the technology as a collaborative learning tool.  

Using ePortfolios as a reflective teaching tool - Case study

What do you think of this resource? Please click here to complete a quick survey. This case study examines the use of simple audio podcasts in a fully online distance education class, as part of the DUCKLING research project conducted by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. It discusses the benefits of using podcasts as part of an integrated online learning strategy in a distance learning context, and gives an overview of how podcasts were used to introduce concepts, provide support for assignments, and to give students direct feedback on their work. 

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