[LINK] Learning to Teach Using e-Learning for Early Career Academics

[Tom Worthington]

Comments on "Learning to Teach Using e-Learning for Early Career 
Academics" would be welcome: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/05/learning-to-teach-using-e-learning-for.html

This is a talk for new ANU academic staff, where I argue they should 
learn how to design online courses:

'Early Career Academics (ECA) are under increasing pressure to teach, as 
well as research. While PHD graduates have extensive experience of the 
university system, most have no formal education or training in how to 
teach. Some formal training in how to design and deliver courses would 
greatly reduce the frustration new academics, and their students, feel. 
ECAs would benefit from the discipline which comes from designing 
courses for pure on-line delivery, even if a face-to-face component is 
used later. This is illustrated in my experience of designing an award 
winning course in ICT Sustainability, which is now offered by 
universities in Australia and North America. Massive Open Online Courses 
(MOOCs) have recently come to prominence. Some of the techniques of 
these can be combined with conventional teaching for easy adoption by 
ECAs, using synchronized asynchronous e-learning with a linear syllabus, 
or for short: "MOOCs with Books".'

Learning to Teach Using e-Learning for Early Career Academics will be 
presented to the ANU Annual NECTAR Retreat, 11am, 5 June 2013, Canberra. 
Slides and notes: 
http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/elearning_early_career_academics


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