Designing and delivering online teaching – principles, tips and pitfalls!

Online learning has received a bad rap for being less effective than most face-to-face learning experiences. In recent years, many learners felt dissatisfied as they were rushed into online and remote learning.

Online teaching can be an effective and engaging learning experience when designed and delivered accordingly. Online teaching requires ‘different thinking’ from the educators as some usual learning approaches just don’t work online, learner engagement is often more challenging, remote learners require different support and the way we present the content needs to be more explicit.

Professor Darrell Evans will set out best practice principles for designing and delivering engaging online teaching, provide some of his observations and insights, and share some practical tips to consider and some potential pitfalls to avoid.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Health profession educators and clinicians who are involved in designing, implementing or delivering teaching and learning activities for an online learning environment.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand online course design principles
• Identify learning assets and activities suited for online learning
• Explore approaches to supporting effective online learning

SPEAKER

Professor Darrell Evans is passionate about the transformative power of education and its promise for future generations. Darrell is a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) and has an academic background as an anatomist and developmental biologist. He has over 30 years’ experience of teaching students from a wide array of health professions in face-to-face, online and hybrid formats. Darrell is an award-winning teacher and is internationally recognised for advances and creativity in higher education practice, particularly in formative assessment, near-peer teaching, and developing communication skills. 

FACILITATOR

Professor Balakrishnan (Kichu) Nair brings significant experience in medical education through his roles as Director of Educational Research, HETI, Director of the Centre for Medical Professional Development, Hunter New England Health Service and Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean with the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. Professor Nair is the editor-in-chief of HETI’s journal, Health Education in Practice, that publishes results of research into, and evaluation of, practice-based education of the workforce in health, including discussions of theoretical issues related to health education.