Distinctive Features
Designed as a capacity building training course for teachers to enable them to teach online, it will provide them with an understanding of the knowledge and best practices required for teaching online; specifically exploring the instructional design aspects of online learning activities. It will also help participants develop insight into developing online assessments and explore strategies for enhancing online engagement and student participation.
Who is it for?
An individual who wants to gear up for the changing world and want to step into the teaching profession themselves.
An organisation who wants to train their workforce to be ready to face the challenges presented by the ever-changing world.
Awarding Body
iQualifyUK - ICE
Course Duration
20 hours
ICE has successfully delivered this course to over 200 participants nationwide in collaboration with NAHE (HEC).
Do you know?
The course provides foundational level knowledge and practice in teaching online.
The course helps explore the instructional design of online learning activities.
The course helps develop insight into developing online assessments.
The course helps explore strategies for enhancing online engagement.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand cognitive load theory to enhance the instructional design in online teaching.
- Develop an understanding of educational technology and its use in an online teaching environment.
- Exploring ways to use technology in facilitating instructional design.
- Relate the use of guiding questions in understanding the teaching material to students’ learning.
- Organize and prioritize teaching material online.
- Distinguish teaching material in terms of quality vs. quantity in an online teaching environment
- Get familiar with online assessment strategies and techniques.
- Develop a connection between students’ learning and assessments in an online learning environment.
- Explain the purpose and design of both formative and summative assessments for online learning and their effectiveness.
- Discover strategies to impart knowledge and learning goals through methods other than lectures.
Adapt to the changing world of teaching online
Course Outline:
The course comprises 8 modules.
In this module, you will understand cognitive load theory to enhance the instructional design in online teaching.
Components:
- Kinds of Cognitive loads
- Implications for eLearning Design
- Examples and Multimedia Implications
- Instructional Design Strategies for Desired Learning
In this module, you will develop an understanding of educational technology and its use in an online teaching environment, exploring ways to use technology in facilitating instructional design.
Components:
- Types of Educational Technologies
- Synchronous and Asynchronous
- Features of Effective Online Environment
- Blended Learning
- The Flipped Classroom Model
- Games & Simulations
- Adaptive Learning
In this module, you will understand different learning styles. This means that, just like us, all 300 students (or more or less) in your class do not all learn in the same way. Components:
- Visual Learners
- Aural Learners
- Verbal Learners
- Naturalist Learners
- Solitary Learners
- Physical and Tactile Learners
- Logical Learners
- Social Learners
In this module, you will understand how to organize and prioritize teaching material online?
Components:
- Content Structure
- Design of Interactions
- Design of Multimedia
- Learning to Self-assess
In this module, you will understand Questioning techniques and strategies that can support Deep Learning.
Components:
- Question Types – Lower Level and Higher Level
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Steps for Planning Questions
- Handling Student Responses
- Strategies for Responding to Student Questions
In this module, you will understand Develop a connection between students’ learning and assessments in an online learning environment. Get familiar with online assessment strategies and techniques.
Components:
- Designing Online Assessments
- How to Teach and Assess Online Effectively
- Online Teacher Competencies to Foster Student Engagement
- Online vs Traditional Assessments
- Ways of Effective Online Teaching
- Aligning Learning Outcomes with Online Assessments
- Tools for Effective Online Assessment
In this module, you will understand the importance of creating authentic assessment activities in the online environment. It is critical for instructors to make sure the course starts with a set of clearly defined learning outcomes; which are aligned with the assessment activity.
Components:
- Formative Assessment
- Summative Assessment
- The Aspects Of Student Learning Can We Assess Online
In this module, you will understand strategies to create engaging online content. All learning, except for simple rote memorization, requires the active involvement of each learner.
Components:
- Why Examine Student Engagement?
- Metacognitive Learning, Mind Mapping, and Scaffolding
- Backwards Lesson Design Strategies
- Lesson Planning
- Online Tools and Resources
Feedback of the attendees
“The course was very comprehensive. Not just a training in name but in actual essence too and (it) has valid application in the current scenario.”
Sanam Wasif
Senior Lecturer, Bahria University Islamabad (BUIC)