Tag Archives: online teaching

Supporting Tutors in Adobe Connect

Posted on 21st February 2022 by Dawn Evelyn

By Carol Edwards & Andrew Maxfield In this blog we plan to share how we supported our new and less experienced tutors to deliver successful online tutorials during the Covid pandemic. As the leading provider of distance online learning, it … Continue reading →

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The Experience of Teaching during a Pandemic

Posted on 12th February 2021 by Dawn Evelyn

By Hilary Collins Back in January I published research on the academic experience of teaching and working online. Right now it feels rather timely. In our paper we discussed the precarity of a digital academic life, and examined how this … Continue reading →

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From Experience to Theory (Part One)

Posted on 29th January 2021 by Jennie Slade

By Haider Ali In the first article of a series, we will look at one of the methods we have used with a course presented on the FutureLearn platform in order to address the twin challenges of making management education … Continue reading →

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Does co tutoring improve online teaching practice?

Posted on 20th January 2021 by Jennie Slade

By Jim Lusted and Claire Maguire Introduction Tutors are increasingly being asked to teach together with a colleague – often called ‘co-tutoring’ – delivering both face-to-face and online tutorials as a pair. But what are tutors’ experiences of co-tutoring and … Continue reading →

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Exploring engagement with online interactivities: An introduction to our project

Posted on 22nd December 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Sarah Henderson and Ben Melluish A recent conversation with a colleague centred around that age-old question of how to get her son to eat his vegetables; a dilemma we are sure many parents will be familiar with. The young … Continue reading →

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I want my weekend back!

Posted on 8th October 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Haider Ali Face to face residential schools are core to a number of Open University modules, but this does involve sacrifices: One of them being a complete loss of a weekend, while they go away to a residential school, … Continue reading →

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Creating Emergency Remote Learning Environments in Response to COVID-19

Posted on 30th September 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Michael Ngoasong The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is a nightmare for universities and businesses world-wide. Universities are turning to online remote teaching (Jack. A. and Moules, J. 2020) and requiring staff to work from home. Some of us … Continue reading →

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Can we teach skills online?

Posted on 15th July 2020 by Jennie Slade

By Lin Smith As lecturers we can lecture, can’t we? Have our online students acquired key skills for success? We design the assessment, so we think we assess what we have taught and what we expect them to have acquired. … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the SCiLAB blog!

Posted on 29th April 2020 by Kate Bunker

by Dr Jacqueline Baxter, Dr Ruslan Ramanau and Kate Bunker This blog is run by the Centre for Innovation in Legal and Business Education (SCiLAB) at the Open University Business School. Here at the Open University we have been successfully … Continue reading →

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Online teaching: starting out. My Story

Posted on 29th April 2020 by Kate Bunker

by Dr Jacqueline Baxter The recent COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown has meant that many teachers at all phases of learning have had to very rapidly get to grips with teaching online. But teaching online is not something that comes … Continue reading →

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