Enabling Flexible Learning: reflections on our first online module

Dr Ruth AtkinsDr David Poyton

Aberystwyth University

• Background– The Law and Internet Commerce– Alcohol, Drugs and Crime

• Approach Adopted– Blackboard– Introductory lecture– Online Materials– Discussion Board ‘Seminar Sessions’– Assessment

• Study/Learning Log• Coursework Assignment

Experiences:Staff and Student Perspectives

• Best-laid schemes...

• Inspiration?

• Isolation

• Direction• Discussion Boards

• ‘Value’

• Online Materials

• ...for courses

Next...?• Review

• Recorded lectures/brief presentations

• Workshops?– ‘Flipped Classroom’

• More online formative activities– Feedback and corrective (Mastery Learning)

• Peer Tutoring

Next...?• TNE

• Branch Campus

• Network

Thank You!