Moderating Online Groups

Moderating Online Groups is a face-to-face, highly interactive one-day seminar that equips academics, teaching assistants and associate tutors with practical skills to design the online components of their courses for effective e-moderation and management.

This hands-on seminar is based on a set of Blackboard-based online learning activities (e-tivities) that participants tackle individually and in groups throughout the day. As part of these activities, participants are invited to experiment with a variety of learning technologies and consider their application to their own pedagogical contexts.

There are currently no further dates available.

By the end of the seminar, participants will have:

• Experienced and played an active role, as students, in a task-based online course.
• Identified key features of low-cost, high-value learner-centred design.
• Selected practical, innovative, time-saving design and delivery ideas for implementation in their own courses.
• Experimented with a number of learning technologies, both within Blackboard and externally, in order to meet concrete pedagogical needs.
• Become aware, through practical experience, of specific strategies to maximise purposeful learner motivation to use discussion forums, wikis and blogs.
• Identified clear links between those ideas and current literature

• Anyone with responsibility for moderating online student groups, or is interested in setting up participative online groups of students or researchers.
• Colleagues who need to maximise student participation via asynchronous online tools in their learning designs.
• Distance learning tutors who want to provide cost-effective environments for student support and engagement.

None: if your knowledge of online tools is limited, it does not matter!

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Dr Alejandro Armellini, Senior Learning Designer, Beyond Distance Research Alliance (BDRA)

Please see http://tinyurl.com/armellini

Dr Alejandro (Ale) Armellini's research focuses on reflective and innovative applications of new technologies in pedagogical design, teaching, learning, assessment and research.

Ale has extensive international teaching and programme development experience across many educational sectors. He has taught on and researched virtual learning environments and a variety of synchronous and asynchronous technologies as part of on and off-site programmes. His PhD tutees research specific areas in the field of educational technology and innovation. Research teams under his leadership at Leicester have studied learning technologies and their application in diverse academic settings and programmes.

Maximum 15 delegates
Minimum 8 delegates

Please complete the Online Booking Form submitting to the Staff Development Partnershp. 

Booking Conditions apply.

Contact the Academic Practice Unit: apu@le.ac.uk

Course Code: SDCRSCH-SPR160