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How to Design Digital Learning and Teaching
What to consider when designing digitally enhanced learning and teaching scenarios?
In their report on “Curriculum and Assessment in a Digital Context” (2022), the EUA (European University Association) explores “how to embed digitally enhanced learning and teaching (DELT) and digital technologies in the curriculum, and how to design and manage coherent digital assessment so that it truly reflects intended learning outcomes, is engaging, diverse, high quality, and aligned with the curriculum".
According to the EUA, "this report highlights the multiple facets of curriculum and assessment in a digital environment, as well as challenges met by higher education institutions across Europe – such as reaching equity for all students, designing effective institutional strategies to embed DELT into curriculum, supporting teachers in experimenting and innovating with digital teaching, embedding assessment as integral part of curriculum, and developing students’ and teachers’ assessment literacy.
The report also provides recommendations to HEIs for addressing such challenges, considering the pandemic context but also beyond it. The group was organised in the context of the “Supporting European universities in their strategic approaches to digital learning” (DIGI-HE) project and EUA’s Learning & Teaching activities".
How to approach the design of blended learning scenarios
Blended Learning is a broad concept. It is generally understood as a targeted, sequenced and balanced mix of different learning settings in terms of synchronicity (synchronous sessions and asynchronous study phases), location (online or offline, on-campus or distance), social learning arrangements (individual study, small group work or whole class activities), amount of teacher presence (teacher presence, tutored, independent) and a variety of methods applied.
Considering the advantages of blended learning settings to address external conditions such as time constraints, restricted mobility etc., the creation of such settings can be seen as a simple necessity. However, using the advantages of certain learning environments (e.g. the possibility of in-person interaction for lively discussions or the possibility of self-paced online learning when acquiring new knowledge) while avoiding the respective disadvantages of each environment and combining these elements in a meaningful way can facilitate learning much more than would be possible with each of these environments alone.
Here you can find out how to achieve a well-founded didactic design for your course in 5 steps: Instructional Design / Learning Design
Questions to ask
When planning, designing and implementing your course in a blended format, the following questions can provide a helpful framework:
- What is my role in teaching, what are my tasks?
- How do I promote principles of LAS such as student-centered learning, collaboration and interaction, etc. in my course?
- What support do the students need in order to achieve the learning objectives defined?
- What kind of learning activities do I want to stimulate?
- What digital methods can be applied to enable these learning activities?
- Which tools are particularly suited for this purpose? Do they comply with data protection regulations (GDPR)?
- How do I best sequence and blend different kinds of learning activities?
- How can I design the learning environment as well as learning media used in a motivating and learner-friendly way?
- What can I do to best facilitate learning in web meetings?
- How can adequate and timely feedback on learning processes be ensured/provided?
Here you can find out how to achieve a well-founded didactic design for your course in 5 steps: Instructional Design / Learning Design
In this section of the Digital Teaching Toolbox you will find a selection of approaches to designing blended learning scenarios as well as typical formats such as Flipped Classroom, Hybrid Learning and SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses).
Click one of the tiles to further explore a topic.
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