Online Teaching: Evaluating and Improving Courses

This microcredential, which lasts 12 weeks, will give you the skills to assess and improve your online courses.

This microcredential is for individuals who are educators, trainers, and learning institutions. It will help you ensure that your online courses and technology enhanced learning (TEL) offerings continue to be successful regardless of your sector.

While technology isn't new, the COVID-19 pandemic saw individuals and organisations move courses and teaching online at an unprecedented rate. Some implementations have been so rapid that there is no evidence to support it.

Variations of the lockdown strategy will likely continue for some time. However, technology-enhanced learning is more in-demand than ever.

This course will help you create an ethical course evaluation framework, analyze cause and effect relationships in the findings, share relevant insights with stakeholders, and ultimately increase the impact of your online classes.

You can minimize the long-term effects of COVID-19 and its impact on student learning by identifying the best ways to make online learning and assessment work.

This microcredential will allow you to identify the factors that limit or enhance your teaching, and help you use these insights to improve your online teaching.

As part of your learning journey, you'll be encouraged not only to use the skills and knowledge that you have acquired but also to learn from your peers.

This course was developed by The Open University's leading online and distant education experts. You will learn how to recognize what's working and why, using the best educational evaluation techniques.

Learn how to make an ethical evaluation strategy for your setting. You will also learn how to analyze your findings to help you adapt your online course design.

Global online learning is expected to reach $325 billion by 2025. Blended learning and COVID-19 social distancing are driving online education. This means that online learning is becoming more commonplace, as well as being integrated into traditional teaching methods.

Teachers have to be able to assess the effectiveness of online courses.

This course will benefit you if you have taught in an adult learning environment. This microcredential is for you if you are thinking of moving your teaching online.