Learning and Teaching Online (P02201)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EDU-P-P02201

This course will consider how networked, digital technologies and spaces can best be engaged with in the context of learning and teaching in higher education, and how such engagement might affect both pedagogy and scholarship.

The course will give participants the opportunity to gain a practical and critical grounding in the use of digital technologies for learning. It will enable them to engage hands-on with a range of digital learning environments, offer practical guidance to the effective use of new technologies for learning, and also explore some of the cultural and contextual issues which define e-learning as a vibrant field of study.

On completion of the course, participants will have gained an introductory overview of how online learning has become a key issue in higher education, what digital environments can offer in terms of the delivery of courses and support of learning, and how the project of teaching and learning is affected by our engagement with these technologies. Participants will gain first-hand experience of working individually and collaboratively in a formal online-learning programme, will learn how to build their own online course, and will have the chance to engage with and debate some of the key ideas about e-learning emerging from current research.

There will be two 2-hour lab sessions, with the rest of the course being delivered via online, distance learning.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : For new lecturers participation in the two day orientation to teaching at the University of Edinburgh offered by the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment is a course requirement.

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Participants will be required to have regular access to a networked computer, and will be responsible for providing their own computing equipment and consumables. Broadband is highly recommended. All core and some additional readings will be provided online through e-reserve.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Education, (The Moray House School of Education, Schedule C)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 2 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 48 hour(s) per week for 2 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course participants will be able to:

? critically evaluate a range of technologies in terms of their impact on teaching and learning
? begin to design their own online learning resources
? contextualise their own practice in terms of the key issues emerging from current research in e-learning

Assessment Information

Participants will produce an assignment relating to one of the perspectives or issues they have encountered during the course. Students will be encouraged to use the assignment as a means of exploring alternative literacies online. For example, they might innovate with form by presenting the assignment as a wiki or a web-essay. They will also have the opportunity to contribute their own assessment criteria for their submission. Essay length will be 2,500 words or equivalent.