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In these uncertain times due to the Coronavirus COVID-19, many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online. Where do you begin? How do you manage the process?
To address these questions and many others, EDEN is organising a series of practical webinars entitled “EDEN webinar series: Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19”. These webinars are featuring experts and experienced practitioners within the field of open, distance, and e-learning.
The weekly, one-hour sessions are held every Monday at 17:00 CEST, from March through June, 2020.

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Facing the overnight change that there are no more f2f lectures, at least for some time, a number of teachers have had to now think about how to organize their courses in online environment. For those already using digital technologies and running blended courses, it was not such a demanding task, but for those who teach predominantly in the classroom environment, it have been quite a sudden an often overwhelming challenge. When now engaging in online learning, a number of teachers are making first steps looking into how and where to start, how online teaching should look like, how to engage with students…others have had to adapt their blended way of working to the fully online mode. Online learning has brought new challenges to students, too: although they use digital technologies in their everyday life, online learning is new to them as well, deprived from the physical presence of the classroom some of them feel isolated and unsecure and feel a lack support. In this webinar, we will provide practical tips that can help teachers in designing, structuring and delivering their online courses. We will do so by trying to give you answers to the following questions:

• How to transfer f2f courses to online environments?
• What are the necessary elements of an online course?
• Is there a difference between learning outcomes (LO) in f2f and online and how to assess LO in the online environment?
• How to organize students’ activities to be in correlation with LO and ECTS points of the course?
• How to make sure that an online course is not just a repository of learning materials?
• How to ensure effective communication with students in the online environment? What should be the ratio between synchronous and asynchronous communication?
• What kind of audio and video resources can be used, and how many of them to add to the course?

Moderator

Fabio Nascimbeni
Head of Learning Design, Open University UK

Presenters

Joyce Seitzinger
Learning Design Director, RMIT Online
Joyce is an advocate for learning experience design at scale as a tool for driving digital transformation in education with experience in the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia. She has worked in corporate training as well as higher education. In 2014, she found Academic Tribe, a distributed network of education specialists who provide consultancy and services in learner experience design, social learning, gamification and open badges. Also, she is currently working as the Learning Design Director at RMIT Online. ‘With more than 20 years experience in designing blended and online learning experiences, I’ve been part of the online education industry as it has matured. I’ve seen what works, I’ve seen what doesn’t work, and I’ve seen the same mistakes made over and over again when learning design doesn’t happen in a multi-disciplinary team that combines subject matter expertise with digital pedagogy, design and production expertise.’

Gerald Evans
Head of Learning Design, Open University UK

Gilly Salmon
Academic Director at Online Education Services (OES)
www.gillysalmon.com