Welcome to our community of practice!

Just like you, every one of us at IET is an online teacher and learner, and we know what it’s like. For whatever reason you chose to embark on this journey with us, stepping into this ever-changing enchanting forest of online teaching and learning world – we invite you to do it together.

While progressing in any of the modules, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to connect, interact, support your peers, and figure out what kind of community you need around you while learning online.

We designed our community’s opportunities into five circles, and it is entirely up to you to decide if and how you want to take any of those opportunities, contribute to them and shape them with us as we go.

• Circle 0 is our internal circle, where we share information between various modules and community activities to support you the best we can.
• Circle 1 includes community activities carried within specific modules, such as online discussions, conferences, and student-led activities.
• Circle 2 aims to bring together all our postgraduate students, no matter which module they are taking at any point, within an online forum and online events, including student-led and student-initiated.
• Circle 3 opens up opportunities for you to connect with our department and alumni, inviting you to attend webinars and talks related to your topics of study.
• Circle 4 will open up opportunities to connect with the wider community of online teachers through Twitter and public-faced events.

As a first step, we want to invite all our postgraduate students (existing and new) to a welcome (online) event!

The event will be focused on the new Master’s programme, but we welcome all of our post-graduate students to join us for a fun and relaxing introduction to the programme.

It will take place on the 23rd of March 2023, 18:30-20:00 UK time

The contact details can be found on the Master’s website https://learn2.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=206289, or here https://learn2.open.ac.uk/blocks/news/message.php?m=34428029

If you cannot access those links, please drop us an email at iet-onlineteaching@open.ac.uk