Welcome to Learning to Teach Online Video Lecture | Teach Online: A Comprehensive Approach for Teaching Online - Professional Skills

welcome to learning to teach online my
name is simon mcintyre and i'm the
project leader for this a LTC funded
initiative this is a free online
professional development resource for
teachers who want to develop a better
understanding of online pedagogy and
practice I'm Karin Watson and I'm the co
project manager this project is aimed at
all teachers it can be for the novice
who has no online teaching experience
and wants to get started all for
teachers that do have online experience
and are looking for new ways of doing
things
a lot of teachers often feel that
teaching online can be quite isolating
or they want to do something and they
don't quite know how to get started on
it and one of the benefits of this
project is it gives you the first step
to get to to start with your online
teaching
the rapid development of Internet
technologies has changed the way we as a
society interact communicate work and
learn more and more students are
demanding flexible learning options that
use the Internet as a delivery medium
COFA online is an academic
at the College of Fine Arts the
University of New South Wales in Sydney
Australia we've been working for many
years with different academics helping
them understand how to plan teach and
evaluate online courses the aim of the
learning to teach online project is
really to extend this past our own
faculty past our own University and
involve teachers all around the world
the learning to teach online project is
really about drawing wisdom from many
different voices from a variety of
different institutions and disciplines
what are the common problems and how did
they overcome these problems
this project works through a series of
what we call episodes each episode
contains a video component and a PDF
which explain one pedagogical issue we
have contextualizing episodes which are
about looking at different pedagogical
issues in detail we also have case
studies which are about finding examples
of best practice from different teachers
and explaining how those were planned
taught and what the successes and
failures were we also have a number of
technical support episodes where we show
you how to get started in many different
online technologies related to the case
studies or other episodes that you may
watch
the benefit of this project is that it's
free it's easily accessible online so if
a teacher wants to find out more about a
particular subject or but a particular
type of teaching they can access it
through YouTube's through iTunes or
through the learning to teach online Co
for online website if there's something
you want to know more about one of the
episodes or something you saw you can go
as a teacher you can go into the
learning to teach online forum online
and there'll be several threads there
that where you can you can discuss those
particular issues with other teachers we
really hope that you find these episodes
useful and that your contribute by
giving us feedback and joining our
online discussions
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