Delivering online training sessions to distance learners

Helen Clough, EMALINK, 20 May 2015www.slideshare.net/helenalex

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Why?

Blackboard Collaborate Plan

Welcome to this Librarytraining session1. Please do the Audio Setup Wizard (Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard…)

2. Indicate whether you have a working microphone using the Yes/No options

OU Live interface

Talk

Raisehand

Input here

Text chat

Content window

Useful buttons

• Polling

• Show emotion

• Step Away

Generic vs targeted• 2014-15 figures (up to mid-May)

SessionsTotal attendance

Highest attendance

Av. attendance

Generic 91 777 44 9Targeted 22 851 130 39

• “Overcoming” the technology (and fear)• You need an audience• Virtual versus face-to-face• Seeing what a student sees• Shadowing and listening to recordings• Mentoring, small groups and peer feedback• Practice, practice, practice• The students are grateful and forgiving

What we’ve learned

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Measuringthe

impact?

helen.clough@open.ac.uk

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