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Actively Promoting Student Engagement Within An Online Environment: Developing And Implementing A Signature Subject On ‘Contemporary Issues In Sex And Sexuality’, Gillian Fletcher, Gary W. Dowsett, Lilian Austin
Actively Promoting Student Engagement Within An Online Environment: Developing And Implementing A Signature Subject On ‘Contemporary Issues In Sex And Sexuality’, Gillian Fletcher, Gary W. Dowsett, Lilian Austin
Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice
La Trobe University is committed to improving the first year experience, and to developing its online teaching portfolio in response to increasing student demand. This article will acknowledge that these two objectives will remain contradictory if online learning systems are used predominantly as repositories of information with little thought given to their specific pedagogic possibilities. The article will then present a case study of an ‘Signature Subject’ that was developed to actively promote learner-material, learner-learner and learner-lecturer engagement in an entirely online environment, through use of synchronous and asynchronous sessions. Background to subject development will be provided, followed by discussion …
From The Campus To The Cloud: The Online Peer Assisted Learning Scheme, Tim J. Beaumont, Aaron P. Mannion, Brice O. Shen
From The Campus To The Cloud: The Online Peer Assisted Learning Scheme, Tim J. Beaumont, Aaron P. Mannion, Brice O. Shen
Journal of Peer Learning
This paper reports on an online version of Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS), also known as Supplemental Instruction (SI), which was trialled in two subjects in the University of Melbourne in 2011. The program, named the Online Peer Assisted Learning (OPAL) scheme, was implemented with the aims of extending the benefits of a successful peer learning program to students other than those who attend face-to-face sessions and contributing to scholarship on the viability of online peer learning with reference to student interest, leader and participant perspectives, and the suitability of synchronous communication platforms. Qualitative research led to mixed findings. Although …