Vocational education and training - VET

A new initiative aims to provide the skills and expertise that instructional designers need to help higher education meet its growing demands for online education.

How do we marry the substantial research on effective teaching and learning with our knowledge and experience of instructional design to ensure effective learning and increase student retention and course completion?

What pedagogical techniques are needed to make online learning engaging and empowering for students?

In this interactive webinar, Dr. Linda Nilson provides:

Specific approaches to course design you can take to increased retention and completion.
Practical insights on how to improve your online teaching, based on cognitive science and instructional design. Approaches to the assessment of learning that help students succeed.
Three Key Takeaways

We can do much more to ensure student engagement and completion, but it requires us to make effective use of the practices of instructional design and the knowledge from cognitive learning research in the way we design, deliver and support students.
We can ensure, but it requires us to think and design carefully our courses so that they are focused and aligned with key program level outcomes.
We can foster rigour and quality, but this requires us to teach effectively and adequately prepare our students to perform well on out assessments.

The answer to the question “Who is leading the digital transformation at your university?” isn’t your president, your provost or your CTO. It’s COVID-19. As the virus threat escalated, universities transformed their on-campus course schedules into virtual catalogs in a matter of days, and now they are settling into virtual office hours, virtual symposia and soon virtual graduations and alumni reunions.

Want to engage and motivate your students? Keen to create authentic and meaningful learning experiences that really connect?