Aims of the course

The aim of this online course is to provide you with the digital design skills and knowledge to plan learning, assessment, units and programmes for flexible delivery next year. In the course you will:

Critically reflect on your experience of teaching online

Explore engaging and inclusive design for your context

Analyse how different technologies can support different types of learning, teaching and assessment

Apply principles of online design to your teaching, assessment, units and programmes

By the end you will have had the opportunity to design a sequence of online activities for a week of teaching, and will have the knowledge and skills to build a user-friendly course in Blackboard using a range of different tools and types of task.

This course has been developed by BILT, DEO and CREATE.

What will we cover?

This course is a self-study resource, meaning that you can work through the course at your own pace, and in your own time, there are seven themes to work through:

Reflections on ‘aha’, ‘oh no’ and ‘so what’ moments

Designing for digital: translation or transformation

The big shift from me to you: interactive teaching

Research-rich learning - the digital way

Nurturing relationships: personal, social, educational

Designing for inclusion

Authentic learning and assessment

How to join

Once you have registered you will receive an auto confirmation email from Eventbrite which will contain a self-enrolment link, you will find the link in the 'Additional information' section of the email .

Once enrolled you can find the course by going to ‘My organisations’ on your Blackboard ‘Home’ page and selecting ‘Digital Design - Open’.

If you are part of the UoB community but don't have access to the UoB Single Sign-on, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk and they will be able to help you.

Digital Design - individual self study course