Canvas Convos - Online Teaching and Learning
A Faculty-wide event to celebrate the many online teaching tactics that had emerged over the past year.
In September 2021, BEL+T hosted Canvas Convos, a Faculty-wide event to celebrate the many online teaching tactics that had emerged over the past year. The event was organised around a set of conversations between staff and students covering a range of topics, including coordination, interaction, delivery, supportive learning environments and assessment. Canvas was approached as a "portal", both for understanding the broad range of learning design elements and as the mechanism through which students experience each subject.
The following is a set of tactics implemented by ABP academics in 2020-2021 as identified by BEL+T’s review of Canvas sites. These were discussed at the 9th September 2021 ‘Canvas Convos’ Event hosted by BEL+T. The recording of the event is available for ABP staff (staff-login required). The tactics are organised by various dimensions of the BEL+T’s DIAgram, each of which contribute to support learner engagement and belonging.
Learning and Teaching Tactic | Definition or Details |
Coordination | |
Clear and consistent navigational strategy |
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Well-organised homepage design |
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Structured weekly workflow |
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Interaction | |
Structure for asynchronous interactionv |
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Virtual platform for informal synchronous meet-ups |
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Virtual collaborative work and exhibition spaces |
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Delivery | |
Relevant resources to support independent learning |
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Inspiring produced or curated content to encourage engagement |
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Supportive Learning Environment | |
Use of voice to convey teacher presence |
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Production of a ‘survival tips’ video |
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Structured plan of daily learning activities |
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Assessment | |
Accessible and clear assessment-related information |
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Explicitly communicated constructive alignment between delivered content, interactive opportunities and assessment tasks |
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Appropriate and supportive feedback strategies |
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