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Introduction
Introduction and guidance
This course is an adaptation of the Open University course Take your teaching online and is aimed at teachers and educators in Myanmar, who are interested in creating course materials for the online learning environment.
This course lasts four weeks, with approximately five hours of study each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week’s study.
Online learning has rapidly emerged and is now found in every area of education, from schools to skills training. More people than ever learn through online courses. Even where teaching is primarily ‘face-to-face’, online tools and interactions have become a key part of the learning experience.
But teaching online is different. If you work in education or training at any level, you need to develop new skills and understanding in order to make the right decisions, make the most of the opportunities, and overcome common challenges.
It is almost 20 years since The Open University trialled our first fully online course with our students. We are now world leaders in the research and delivery of online education. In this free course, we share the fundamental knowledge needed to deliver effective teaching online.
You will hear about the experiences of real educators, be introduced to cutting edge research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Identify the differences between teaching online and teaching in a face-to-face environment.
- Make informed decisions when choosing new tools and pedagogies for online teaching.
- Identify major benefits and challenges of teaching online.
Moving around the course
In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each week, you can find a link to the next week. If at any time you want to return to the start of the course, click on ‘Course content’. From here you can navigate to any part of the course. Alternatively, use the week links on the right sidebar of the course.
It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within a course page (including links to the quizzes), to open it in a new window or tab. That way you can easily return to where you’ve come from without having to use the back button on your browser. If you download the whole course in Word or PDF format for offline reading, we recommend that from time to time you do revisit the online course to do activities, watch videos and answer quizzes as this content might not be available offline.
Activities and storing your answers
Throughout this course you will be presented with activities which are designed to develop your understanding of the topics and give you the tools for study or work beyond the course. The activities often require you to provide answers, responses or comments in a text box which are then stored within the course itself, only viewable by you. To make the most of the course we also advise that you store your answers together elsewhere on your computer (perhaps in a Word document) for ease of access after you have completed the course. We recommend that you transfer the answers to your own reflective journal or a note book as you complete each week of study.
Statement of Participation
By enrolling you can track your progress and gain a Statement of Participation for completing the whole course.
Before you start, we would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to answer three simple questions in this short survey to enable us to understand who is interested in this course. There will be a further survey for you to complete after you finish the course, which will need to be completed in order to gain a Statement of Participation. Your input will help to further improve the online learning experience.
Course structure
For this course you are asked to do three things in order to obtain your Statement of Participation:
- Work through the materials in Weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4, carrying out the activities. These should be done for your own benefit and will not be formally assessed; however, in order to obtain your Statement of Participation you will need to have accessed all of the course pages. In some cases you may find it useful to share your ideas or try out things in practice; however, this is not essential.
Complete the end-of-course quiz at the end of Week 4. This compulsory quiz tests your understanding and counts towards completion of the course. You must obtain a score of at least 50% in order to pass.
- You can try each question three times. If you get the answer right first time you will get three marks, on your second try two marks and for your third one mark.
- There is no limit to the number of attempts at the whole quiz.
- If you score less than 50% of the maximum possible score you will need to take the quiz again if you want to pass the course.
- If you are not successful in reaching the 50% score on your first attempt, you can attempt the quiz again after 24 hours.
When you have finished one attempt at the quiz, click on 'Finish attempt...' to review your ‘Summary of attempt’. Once you are happy with your answers click on 'Submit all and finish'. Then return to the course for the final sections.
- Once you have submitted your first quiz attempt, please complete the end-of-course survey.
This course also contains short quizzes at the end of Weeks 1, 2 and 3. These are for your own benefit and do not count towards your Statement of Participation – however, we do recommend that you attempt each quiz at least once.
Get started with Week 1.