Synchronous teaching

Reflecting on our synchronous teaching activities in semester one to identify content and activities that can be reused.

Hi everyone! We’ve done some great teaching across our programmes this semester and have had some amazing engagement from our attendees. This semester’s live/synchronous teaching has necessarily been more thought-out than in previous years — considering the opportunities and limitations of Zoom and other web-conferencing platforms; creating learning opportunities which are genuinely blended with asynchronous content and activities; and generally rethinking what works and what doesn’t.

One thing I think we’ve all found is that creating these teaching and learning opportunities takes time — much more time! We were already sharing content and activities or drawing upon open teaching, all in the spirit of collaboration — we’ve maintained that spirit and added the pragmatic outlook of getting stuff done in the limited time we have.

With this in mind we want you to come together synchronously or asynchronously to share those activities that have gone well or prompted great engagement. How did you run them? How did they meet the learning objective you set? How did attendees engage? Did the activity create a resource attendees could return to?

Use this Jamboard to add the details of your activity — that could be your plan, a description of the activity, resources that you used or that your attendees created. Whatever you want! It would also be great to hear your ideas on how the activity could be used elsewhere — whether in the MLE open programme, for assessment support, or in any other programme or place.

We’re also arranging a synchronous get together to share our ideas and demonstrate our activities. If I haven’t invited you just let me know in Teams!

Michael