Towards an Effective and an Engaging E-Learning

Description

**This course comprises a set of very practical and contextualized hands-on assignments to help teachers with their online teaching**

Due to the recent Covid-19 pandemic and orders to shut-down schools teachers in most Arab countries found themselves in an overwhelming situation. On one hand they were eager to finish the school year and to help their students to move online, but on the other hand they were confronted with a long list of challenges. The findings of a quickly conducted survey, that was disseminated among teachers across the Arab world, identified lack of online teaching skills, lack of online instructional design knowledge, lack of needed ICT skills to be among the main challenges. However, teachers outlined also that they need to understand how to communicate online with their students in an effective and constructive way, how to engage them, motivate them and also how to evaluate their performances in the absence of direct physical interaction.

This course was rapidly designed as an immediate response to the increasing needs to develop new knowledge and skill-sets related to online teaching and learning, and how to move smoothly and swiftly from a traditional teaching environment to a more non-conventional online one. This course focuses on the needed instructional design basics that directly help the realization of student engagement and learning experience effectiveness.

The design of this course is based on the provision of numerous simple and easily applicable tools and applications that enable the implementation of presented concepts and principles. The main aim here is to help teachers to experience those concepts and tools, and get to understand them well enough to be ready to implement them with their students.

What you’ll learn

Move their teaching from a traditional (face-to-face) setting to an online one.

Overcome some of their initial challenges related to the lack of needed knowledge and skill-set.

Understand their new roles in the new online learning environment.

Develop the basic knowledge-base related to online instructional design.

Apply the main online instructional design principles and basics.

Implement a set of simple student-engaging techniques.

Implement the main principles of humanizing an online learning experience.