Online Teaching and Learning | Advice and Resources for Schools, Parents and Teachers

Introduction

Teaching and learning online requires classroom pedagogy to be adjusted. Many of us are finding this challenging during the coronavirus crisis. Here is some support for online and blended teaching and learning.

The CCCU online community of practice: free online webinars for educators (teachers, TAs and lecturers)

The Faculty of Education invites you to a series of supportive and interactive webinars usually now on the first Tuesday of each month from 16.00 to 17.00 (see below for two exceptions this year) in this online and blended learning virtual meeting room (please use Google Chrome) about online and blended teaching and learning for teachers, teaching assistants, student teachers, lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in this field. Feel free to try the room out now as it is permanently open (all you’ll need is a computer or smartphone with a webcam and microphone). No prior experience is necessary for the webinars (and people experienced in this field are welcome too).

Date	Title	Presenter	Slides	Video
4/5/20	An introduction to online and blended learning	Dr John-Paul Riordan	slides	video
11/5/20	Online and blended learning tools	Dr Lee Hazeldine	slides	video
18/5/20	Online and blended subject learning	Finley Lawson	slides	video
1/6/20	Using surveys and data in online and blended learning	Professor Berry Billingsley	slides	video
8/6/20	Assessment tools for online and blended learning	Mark Evans	slides	video
15/6/20	Inclusive online and blended learning	Dr John-Paul Riordan	slides	video
22/6/20	Reading group on teacher preparation for online and blended learning (using chapter 17 from Ferdig and Kennedy, 2014; a freely available eBook)	Dr John-Paul Riordan	slides	none
29/6/20	Online and blended learning in Early Years	Sally Heath and Dr John-Paul Riordan	slides	video 1 & 2
6/7/20	Online and blended learning problem-solving	Dr John-Paul Riordan	slides	video
–	Summer holiday 2020	–	–	–
6/10/20	Online and blended learning in science	Dr John-Paul Riordan	slides	video
4/11/20 from 19.00 to 20.30	Online and blended learning in Early Years (2) with the CCCU Early Childhood Community of Practice: play and connectivity within Early Childhood	Kemal Shaheen, Jo Bowen, Deborah Wetherall, Hilary Welland and John-Paul Riordan	slides	video
1/12/20	Online and blended learning and wellbeing	Wendy Cobb and Dr Joanne Tippett	slides	video
5/1/21	Online and blended learning in maths	Jen Shearman and Andrea Kite	slides	video
2/2/21	Online and blended learning in PE	Dr Kristy Howells	slides	video
2/3/21	Creating surveys for formative assessment and research with online and blended learning	Professor Berry Billingsley	slides	none
	Easter holiday
4/5/21	Online and blended learning with at-risk learners	Stephen King from St Nicholas School Canterbury	slides	video
8/6/21 (NB 2nd Tuesday of the month)	CANCELLED (sorry) ~~Online and blended learning using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality~~	~~Dr Lee Hazeldine~~	~~slides~~	~~video~~
6/7/21	Online and blended learning pedagogy	Dr John-Paul Riordan	slides	video

Webinars in 2020-2021 are usually on the first Tuesday of each month from 16.00 to 17.00 BST (N.B. 4/11/20 is different)

If these webinars might be of interest, please click here and fill in this quick survey for teachers, teaching assistants and lecturers (it takes about 3 minutes) so we know how to contact you and so we can find out what support you might want or need as regards online and blended learning.

With the permission of participants, webinars will be recorded and available above afterwards as videos (we don’t record reading group sessions). You are welcome to come to any or all of the sessions, there is no need to book and it is fine to drop in and out.

The idea of a community of practice was introduced by Lave and Wenger (1991) and Wenger (1998) and can be defined as, “[a] learning partnership among people who find it useful to learn from and with each other about a particular domain. They use each other’s experience of practice as a learning resource” (Wenger, Trayner, and de Laat, 2011, p. 9; see Smith, Hayes and Shea, 2017, for a critical review).