ALTO: Designing learning events for the online environment

This session aims to provide participants with the opportunity to consider a set of key principles to keep in mind when developing effective high-quality learning events. The session will take a structured approach and enable participants to develop a session from their own context (such as a lecture or seminar) and produce a plan that enables them to adapt their current face-to-face delivery into an online environment. The session will provide an opportunity to explore potential avenues for building in meaningful interactivity, and as such student engagement, within the session. The session will be delivered using a range of interactive techniques to showcase potential techniques that staff can adopt into their own context.

Please contact Rowena Senior if you have questions about the session and would like further information.

Self access recording

The live webinar session ran in June and July, but a recording is available on the ALTO Blackboard course, along with other self-access resources

How to access the ALTO Blackboard

1. Log into Blackboard at https://vle.aston.ac.uk
   ideally using the Google Chrome or Safari browsers. Note that Internet Explorer will not work.

2. Find the course Active Learning Teaching Online in the My Courses list on the right of your Welcome Page – it is a University or Staff level course.

   If you really can’t find the course in your list, please see this help page.

3. Self-access recordings: select the menu item Designing learning events for the online environment and follow the instructions.

4. Live webinars: click its title to open the course and then select Webinars from its navigation menu. Then select the session Designing learning events for the online environment to enter the webinar.