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Staff Development For Online Delivery: A Collaborative Team-Based Action Learning Model, Allan Ellis, Renata Phelps
Staff Development For Online Delivery: A Collaborative Team-Based Action Learning Model, Allan Ellis, Renata Phelps
Dr Renata Phelps
For academics to successfully make the transition to online teachers or learning facilitators, they must do more than develop new technical skills. Online development and delivery requires new pedagogical approaches, challenging previous practices with regards to assessment, group interaction and student/teacher dialogue. Furthermore, it necessitates attention to issues concerning academic work practices. Online delivery challenges traditional notions of academics working in isolation and instead brings together teams of people each with unique skills, into a course design and development team. This paper describes the early phases of a systems change approach being implemented in the School of Social and Workplace …