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It was very good at demystifying the experience (quote from participant, July 2013) Janet Gregory, ALT Conference Nottingham, September 2013 Slide 2 Finding your feet Slide 3 Implications Design: demonstrate pedagogical model - student centred, interactive with technical embedded Deliver: provide opportunity to gain skills through experience of online learning and the student role Locate: enable learning within context and community; reflection on practice Importance of effective professional development Slide 4 Challenges for academics any changes in teaching entail an experience of risk-taking requiring changes in personal beliefs rather than simply the addition of new skills (Crebbin, 1997) online teaching is, for many, a move into the unfamiliar entailing risk-taking and a challenge to existing beliefs (McQuiggan, 2012) Slide 5 Swinburne capability development Conducted five e-moderating courses Adapted to Swinburne Participants Majority are teaching staff Majority have little online experience Participation is voluntary 11 interviews Professor Gilly Salmon, 2011 Slide 6 Interview themes Increased confidence confidence comes from having understanding Active application I wouldnt have run the online course this year if I hadnt donethe e-moderating course Value of being a student it was really eye opening for me to get the other view to look at if from that perspective Working with colleagues we all know each other now so we now have a really good synergy Swinburne participants, 2013 Slide 7 Understanding design and delivery You could really use thisto enhance or to have more opportunities to interact with the students How will I approach my teaching differentlythrough the use of activitieswe changedfrom an almost teacher focus to a student centric focus If you dont understand how to engage students and where that may develop in designing your learning approaches, you are not going to be able to do much online If we all did this in face to face teaching we would be a very good teacher Swinburne participants, 2013 Slide 8 Implications Design: demonstrate pedagogical model - student centred, interactive with technical embedded Deliver: provide opportunity to gain skills through experience of online learning and the student role Locate: enable learning within context and community; reflection on practice Importance of effective professional development Slide 9 Thank You References: Crebbin, W. (1997). Defining quality teaching in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 2(1), 21-33. McQuiggan, C. A. (2012). Faculty development for online teaching as a catalyst for change. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 16(2), 27-61. Salmon, G. (2011). E-moderating: The key to teaching and learning online, 3rd ed. New York, NY: Routledge. Contact: jgregory@swin.edu.au