Summary

Congratulations on completing the course!

In this final session you have looked at ways in which you might change and develop your practice as an online educator. You have considered the different ways in which an internet connection can benefit learners and the expectations about learning in a classroom that may no longer apply online. You have also reflected on the skills that learners need when they move online, and been introduced to learning design and its uses.

Your final activity of the course is to see how Rita’s getting along and to reflect on your learning. The community of practice Facebook group will continue once you have finished the course, so you will have opportunities to further develop your practice alongside staff in similar roles in other universities across Kenya.

Activity 8.5 Reflecting on progress

Timing: Allow about 20 minutes

Watch the video or read the transcript. In it, Rita reflects on this session from her perspective as an educator. Take some time to make notes on the following questions:

  1. How does what you have learned in this session relate to your own role?
  2. What changes, if any, could you make to your practice or to the wider practice at your university as a result of what you have learned?
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RITA:
OK. This is the exciting stage. I think that I now have everything I need to try something. I have identified which elements of the existing classroom-based course that I want to retain, which I will change or adapt, and which learning outcomes that I want my learners to meet in a new way in the online environment.
With these new materials, I will go back to my usual processes for designing learning materials and use my learning design knowledge to ensure the pedagogy underpins what I’m doing. Only then will I allow myself to start getting excited about technologies, media and Open Educational Resources! I’m going to start work on preparing my online teaching materials, and I will hope to see you when I have produced something.
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Hello again. I am glad you are still there. I have been working for quite some time, but I think I have a first draft of my online teaching materials ready. I built a framework using my redesigned learning outcomes, and I slotted into it items that would repurpose from my existing classroom materials.
Some of my classroom materials needed a bit of revision, for example making PowerPoints more meaningful and accessible to stand on their own.
Once I had identified where there were gaps, I started looking through all of the OER material I had downloaded from the repositories. When I started looking through it, some of it was immediately rejected due to being the wrong level, not sufficiently accessible, or using teaching techniques that I don’t think are ideal for my learners.
But I did find some wonderful materials too, and with a bit of adjustment to make them suit my purpose, I filled up most of the gaps in my course that way.
Finally, I had to create a few items from scratch as I could find nothing that would do the job. But now I am ready to ask my friends and my accessibility colleagues to look at it and give me feedback. I’m nervous about what they will say, but I am happy to have got this far now.
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