JU Centre for Academic Support will host an online meeting with Prof. Barbara Oakley, world-class expert in academic education, which will be held on 2 June 2023. The meeting will be organised together with a group discussion featuring people involved in academic staff support.
As the world’s experiences with COVID have taught us, creating an engaging online course can be far more difficult than it appears. Join Barbara Oakley, experienced online and flipped class instructor of millions of students, as she walks you the practical “how-to’s” of teaching asynchronous classes that can energize both you and your students.
We’ll start by examining common mistakes—as illustrated by a hilariously bad educational video—and then learn how to improve what you present. We’ll explore practical aspects of multimedia theory, top down versus bottom up attention, and the value of occasional humor. (And we’ll also show you how to supply those bits of humor even if you’re not funny). Simple greenscreen, finding low cost animations and videos, scripting (or not), the importance of your expressions and gesture, voice, lights, gamification, organizing your course on your LMS, ideas to reduce proctoring costs—we’ll cover all this and more.
Detailed information is available on the Ars Docendi website.