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Activities
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Week 1
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- Webinar: welcome to the course; talking about induction
- Task 1: Arrivals lounge
- Task 2: Edit your profile
- Task 3: Tweet about induction
- Task 4: Icebreakers (badge activity)
- Task 5: Share your ideas
 Key reading: Gilly Salmon's five stage model of online learning
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Week 2
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- Group signup sheets
- Task 1: Tweet about learning design models and good online activities
- Task 2: Contribute to inventory of online activities (badge activity)
- Task 3: Learning design discussion
- Task 4: (optional extra) Visit other courses and look at their activities
 Key reading: JISC Effective Practice in a Digital Age guide (up to page 17)
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Week 3
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- Webinar: Guest speaker Jenny Mackness on collaboration in online learning
- Task 1: Collaborative writing online in small groups (badge activity)
- Task 2: Discussing collaborative working
- Task 3: Read, reflect and Tweet
 Key reading: Social presence in the Communities of Inquiry model
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Week 4
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- Webinar: Talk about the assignment
- Task 1: Tweet about supporting learners online
- Task 2: Student support scenarios (badge activity)
- Task 3: Strategies to enhance student support and minimise critical incidents
 Key readings: Teacher presence in the Communities of Inquiry Model and Fetzner (2013) "What Do Unsuccessful Online Students Want Us to Know?"
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Week 5
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- Task 1: Assessing the small group presentations from week 3 (badge activity)
- Task 2: Discuss assessing online contributions
 Key reading: Centre for the Study of Higher Education (2002). Assessing group work.
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Week 6
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- Task 1: Tweet about good practice in online learning
- Task 2: Your own inventory of good practice (badge activity)
- Task 3: Reflect on your discoveries and experience of the course
- Module evaluation
 Key reading: Spiro, J. (2010). Guided Interaction as Intercultural learning: desigining Internationalisation into a Mixed Delivery Teacher Education Programme.
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