The design of an online learning environment is equally, if not more important, than preparing to teach in a physical classroom. Without careful consideration to how students are guided though a course, how teachers interact with students and how students build their own learning community, an online learning environment can be a confusing and isolating space.

This session will overview the CAD Haumanu principles to designing a student centric learning environment and the key areas of change you can make now to your own courses using VUW’s standard online teaching tools.

Using current examples of VUW courses that have aligned to these principles, we will go over the aspects of design, communication and activities that make for a great student experience online.     

What will you learn:

• What a well structured and student centric course looks like
• What you can do now in your own course to provide students with more connection to the course and each other
• How good online design principles also aid in teaching resilience in times of campus disruption

What to do after the webinar to apply the skills learnt:

Review the Haumanu principles checklist, how can you enact this in your own course? - http://learning.vicinnovate.ac.nz/course-continuity-checklist.html

Join a CAD best practice course and explore courses that have applied the Haumanu principles

Host Introduction: Jonathan Flutey and Beth Smith

Time: 60 minutes

How to connect: https://vuw.zoom.us/my/learningandresearch