Plan and design activities for the online environment
1. Planning and Designing ‘face-to-face’
Activities for the Online Environment
Engaging learners online
Samantha Moss
Learning Technologist
2. Types of courses:
• Distance Learning
• All of the course is online
• Live lectures delivered via Virtual
Classroom Software
• Blended Learning
• Mixture of face-to-face and online learning activities
• The ‘blend’ is decided at the start of the development process
• Classroom-Based Learning
• Face-to-face sessions with online tasks & online submission of
assessments (Tech-Enhanced Learning)
3. Building your online classroom
You must consider:
Your site needs to be as clean and as
uncluttered as possible
Learning outcomes and assessment
details should be clearly visible
Contact details of key individuals are
easy to locate
Clear signposting to activities & information
4. Look at your unit’s scheme of work
1) What is your blend?
2) Online activities to replace face-to-face ones or
‘in addition?’
3) What is it you want your students to do?
• Communicate?
• Collaborate?
• Share images/files?
• Self-audit/quiz?
• Research?
• Submit work for feedback/peer assessment?
4) Plan your learning outcome first before deciding on the tools