ONLINE TEACHING ACADEMY
Event Details
The Online Teaching Academy is a certified professional development programme that equips participants with the theoretical and practical tools required to design an effective online or blended learning experience based on sound learning-design principles, best
Event Details
The Online Teaching Academy is a certified professional development programme that equips participants with the theoretical and practical tools required to design an effective online or blended learning experience based on sound learning-design principles, best practices and trends.
This programme is delivered by leading experts in the field who will help you move beyond the crisis to deliver high-quality online learning.
Participants will learn about the value and opportunities of an online environment and how to become effective online instructors. This represents a significant opportunity for any faculty interested in orientating themselves in the online learning space who are looking to keep up with the rapidly-evolving market and explore current trends and innovations.
Target Group:
- Faculty and early-career researchers with some experience in online learning or teaching interested in designing an effective online course which goes beyond videoconferencing
- Learning design professionals with a basic knowledge of online learning design who are interested in understanding the wider landscape of teaching online at a higher education institution, updating and increasing their level of understanding
Dates and Venue:
15 – 19 May 2023: Online preparation
22 May – 24 May 2023: Face to face at EDHEC Business School in Nice with a possibility to attend live online (hybrid format)
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Knowledge:
- Articulate the advantages of online education to support student’s academic and professional development
- Compare and contrast different models of online and blended learning
- Identify the key challenges in online and blended learning and discuss strategies for potential solutions as well as identify tools that can be used to face these challenges
- Reflect on how to use learning analytics to gather insights into learner behaviour
- Learn about the different resources that are at their disposal when designing and delivering an online course
Skills:
- Design a blended or an online learning experience based on sound learning design principles, best practices and trends (including synchronous and asynchronous teaching)
- Create rich and holistic interactive experiences to engage students and enhance learning
- Apply different methods and tools to support online learners including: videoconferences and case discussions, videos, assessments, discussion boards, feedback, interactions, learning analytics, etc.
- Design formative and summative assessments, using a range of technology and tools suitable for online learning
Programme structure
This is a highly-interactive and practical programme. You will work in teams to redesign a pre-existing face-to-face course into an online or blended provision.
Online Preparation
Format: Online (one week: 5 hours of asynchronous work and one live online session of 90 minutes)
- Introduction to online teaching
- The online teaching market for business education
- Online teaching formats (from MOOCs, SPOCs, to blended learning)
- Online facilitation: The professor’s role, the materials, the infrastructure and the learning systems
- The benefits of online teaching
- Understanding your institutional context
- Introduction to online course design
- Identify a project to redesign in online format
Residential period
Format: In-person/hybrid (three full days)
- The challenges of online teaching and learning
- The support needed from your institution
- Understanding your institutional context
- Panel discussion & experience sharing
- Teaching case studies online
- Reimagining education for digital transformation
- The Imperial approach: An introduction to activity-based learning
- Constructive alignment and Bloom’s taxonomy for a digital age
- Videos and multimedia materials
- Interaction design and engagement
- Different types of assessments.
- Providing feedback
- Online course delivery
- Learning Analytics & Generative AI, analytics dashboards and ethics
- Future tools and methodologies for teaching, such as immersive experiences (XR, VR, AR, the metaverse), Artificial intelligence (AI), holograms, among others.
- Conclusions and final reflections.
- Final Assignment: Redesign a pre-existing face-to-face course into an online or blended provision. You will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Application of concepts, structures and best practices
- Use of templates
- Final presentations
Registration
REGISTER HEREProgramme
All indicated time slots are CEST (Brussels time)
Week 15-19 May
Format: Online (one week: 5 hours of asynchronous work and one live online session of 90 minutes)
- Introduction to online teaching
- The online teaching market for business education
- Online teaching formats (from MOOCs, SPOCs, to blended learning)
- Online facilitation: The professor’s role, the materials, the infrastructure and the learning systems
- The benefits of online teaching
- Understanding your institutional context
- Introduction to online course design
- Identify a project to redesign in online format
18 May 18:00 – 19:30
Live online session via Zoom
Monday 22 May
9:00 – 9:30
Registration
9:30 – 10:00
Welcome & recap from previous online period
10:00 – 11:45
Case discussions
11:45 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00
Workshop and discussion about online teaching challenges
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
The videoconference, structure and tools
Teaching case studies online
Online course delivery
15:00 – 16:00
Introduction to course design and principles
16:00 – 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 – 16:30
Introduction to the workshops and final assignment
16:30 – 17:30
Panel discussion & Experience sharing
19:00
Networking dinner @EDHEC
Tuesday 23 May
9:00 – 10:45
Constructive alignment and Bloom’s taxonomy for a digital age
Course design: The Imperial approach: An introduction to activity-based learning
Introduction to feedback and assessments
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00
Videos and multimedia materials
Interaction design and engagement. Maximizing interaction and the learning experience
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Course redesign workshop: Part 1
16:00 – 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 – 17:45
Course redesign workshop: Part 1 – peer feedback and session debrief
19:30
Restaurant dinner
Wednesday 24 May
9:00 – 10:45
Learning Analytics, dashboards, generative AI and ethics
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Future tools and methodologies for teaching. Discussions and experience sharing
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:30
Presentation preparation in teams
13:30 – 15:00
Final Presentations and feedback
15:00 – 15:45
Closing and graduation ceremony
Practical information
Tuition fees
Early Bird offer for registrations until 15 April 2023 (included):
EFMD member: EUR 2.000
Non-member: EUR 2.500
Normal fee as of 16 April 2023
EFMD member: EUR 2.400
Non-member: EUR 2.900
The fee is payable prior to the programme by bank transfer/ credit card.
! A special discount on the applicable fee is available for every second and further participant coming from the same institution, as well as for institutions whose representatives have already participated in previous editions of the programme. Should that be your case, please contact Marketa Dvorackova prior to your registration.
Please note that the registration deadline is the 14th May 2023.
Information concerning VAT
Please note that the above mentioned fees are without VAT. VAT fees are applicable as follows:
Onsite participation: is charged with a 10 % FR VAT. French participants subject to VAT in France do not pay the VAT.
Online participation: VAT-free except for: Belgium participants and participants non-subjected to VAT in their country for whom a 21 % BE VAT has to be charged.
Cancellation policy
Cancellation must be confirmed in writing before the 15th of April 2023. A cancellation fee of EUR 100.00 (plus VAT if applicable) will be charged if cancellation is confirmed before 15 April 2023.
After the above mentioned date, we are unable to refund any fees. However, in such cases, substitutes are welcome at no extra cost as long as we receive notification of the name, title and address of the substitute.
Accommodation
Accommodation expenses are not included in the tuition fee.
EFMD has negotiated a preferential rate at the following hotel within 10-min walking distance to the venue:
Campanile Nice Aéroport hotel***, 459-461 Promenade des Anglais, 06200 Nice, at the rate of 107 EUR/ room including breakfast, valid until 21 March 2023. For bookings please contact nice.aeroport@campanile.fr, mentioning the promo code ‘EDHEC’, bookings based on availability.
We can recommend also the following hotels within a walking distance from the school:
Novotel Suites Nice Airport****
Due to the high tourist season on the French Riviera, we recommend to book your accommodation at your earliest convenience.
Speakers
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Martín Rodríguez
Director of Digital Learning & Online Solutions, IE University, Spain
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Sarah Grant
Director of Digital Education, IDEA Lab, Imperial College Business School, UK
Contact
Location
online & Nice, France
Time
may 15 (monday) 12:00 - may 24 (wednesday) 16:00 All indicated times are CEST
