About the course: Teaching Online Open Course (TOOC)

These materials are drawn from a course run by the Oxford Centre for Learning Development (OCSLD) as both a free open course and an accredited 10-credit M-level course. The materials were written by Greg Benfield, Elizabeth Lovegrove and Marion Waite, and are released under a Creative Commons license, which means you are free to reuse and adapt them for non-commercial purposes, as long as you release your adapted version under a similar license, and credit our work. Please let us know if you find the material useful.

You can find out more about the course, or sign up to participate in the next run, at the OCSLD web site, and see the 'live' course materials at http://vle.openbrookes.net/.

TOOC is an intensive introduction to supporting student learning in online environments. Course tutors support participants through scheduled activities with selected key readings, specially developed course resources, and guest experts.

General course information

Weekly course topics

The links below are to the RADAR items which contain all the materials for each of the course topics.

  1. Inducting and socialising online learners
  2. Designing engaging online activities
  3. Designing collaborative online activities and supporting online groups
  4. Supporting student learning
  5. Assessment
  6. Articulation of good practice in online learning