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The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching and unexpected impacts on educational institutions around the world. With many universities offering fully online or hybrid learning programs for the fall semester, instructors are continuing to seek ways to make their approaches to learning more flexible, dynamic, and accessible. Fortunately, Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) allows you to adapt and expand your learning programs to deliver engaging, convenient, and tailored online courses and resources to students. With a highly flexible and interoperable LMS, you can leverage a variety of eLearning strategies to scale your distance learning programs while future-proofing your solution to meet the ever-evolving needs of your learners. Join eThink on Thursday, September 17th, at 2:00 pm Eastern to learn how Moodle is currently being used in colleges and universities to improve educational outcomes. During the session, you will learn: Why Moodle is the world's most widely used LMS... The advantages of open-source technology and the Moodle ecosystem About the features that colleges and universities are using to organize their online education and engage students. The benefits of having support and guidance to tailor your learning programs based on the current conditions. How Moodle's community-driven platform, provide a refreshingly simple and flexible solution to meet specific institutional needs. Save my seat We hope to see you on September 17th! If you can't make the live session, register anyway - we will send you a link to the recording.

Join the College Development Network this month for the latest in their popular digital learning series, Virtual Bridge Webinars delivered in partnership with Jisc. Sessions will run Tuesday and Friday (1100-1130) Tuesday 8 September Online Assessments at Edinburgh College Bethany Winkler, Edinburgh College Join us for this session and we’ll take you through the steps of how we assess students online, preparing them for the best possible future. Friday 11 September New Features in MS Teams Jan Low and Claire Masterton, Dundee & Angus College Join this session to learn new MS Teams features and see what’s going to be released over the current academic term. Tuesday 15 September Leading as a Host, Not a Hero – Bringing People Together for Engagement, Performance and Results Dr Mark McKergow, Centre for Solutions Focus at Work Join this session and hear Mark outline the rich metaphor of leading as a host, and point us to ways to start applying it right away. Friday 18 September Blackboard Ally 101 Lesley Hamilton, University of Glasgow Join this session to discover how the Blackboard Ally 101 was launched in response to the new(ish) Public Sector Body Web Accessibility Regulations and learn how its first week has gone. Tuesday 22 September Design is Crucial – Getting Your Message Across Toni Gibson, Robert Gordon University Join this session to receive simple tips on how to ensure your presentation doesn’t get in the way of your message. Toni will also cover Bitmoji, a popular free tool that lets you add a bit of yourself in your communication.

Thu, August 13, 2020 - more dates are available at registration. Free Online Teams Training for Educators In this virtual training session, learn how Microsoft Teams allows teachers, students and staff to seamlessly connect and work together, create content, and share resources all from a single, easy-to-learn and simple to use platform. This training is delivered through Microsoft Teams which will allow you to interact directly with the facilitator, ask questions and collaborate with other educators as you continue to improve your remote classroom capabilities. Register for Event

Delivering Curriculum Online CDN has just launched a new Resource Bank of guides for Online/Blended Delivery. They have worked closely with the sector to create a core set of useful guides in the following five areas to support delivery for the upcoming academic year: Designing for Online/Blended Delivery Preparing Materials Education for All Managing the Online Space Formative Assessment and Feedback For each area, they have chosen two primary resources that covers relevant and practical information in a very concise format (10-15 minutes). If you want to dive deeper, there are two longer reads (around 1 hour). Finally, they have chosen a single longer resource – either an online course or significant read to explore an area in more detail. Check out the Online/Blended Delivery Resource Bank here Take a moment and listen to Kenji Lamb, Digital and Innovation Lead, provide a two-minute introduction to the online/blended delivery section of the resource bank:

About the event Connect More 2020 focused on how we can all elevate the student experience during this challenging time. It included first-hand examples of effective digital practice from peers across both HE and FE with new ideas to put into practice at your organisation. Read full event details. Catch up with event recordings Missed an online session from Connect More? Take a look at the programme for all available recordings and presentations. Open the programme

Sometimes the hardest thing to sustain in an online environment is a sense of community with your fellow students. The issue is compounded when students are joining the institution for the first time and there’s less opportunity to spend time together on campus. How then do we foster that sense of community, encouraging our students to form the bonds that can last a lifetime. We’ll pass on 10 tips that we’ve learned during lockdown to help you build and sustain online student communities. Presentation delivered by Avril Edmond, University of the West of Scotland, as part of the Virtual Bridge Session series.

Esther Barrett a subject specialist in Digital Practice Jisc recently hosted a Virtual Bridge Session talking about how you make your online sessions interactive and engaging. This session gives some quick tips and timely reminders to make sure the audience not only stays awake, but feels positively enthused by your online sessions. With the massive increase in remote teaching, and pressure of time in preparation, this session will help you deliver in a way which leaves everyone feeling good! Here are links to some of her blog posts that I thought would be very useful in helping to move your sessions online effectively. Teaching in Microsoft Teams Live online learning – is this the future? Webinars, online classes and meetings – from Yawn to Yay The video below is a short introduction to give you some simple ideas that you can introduce to your own sessions. From changing the font you use on your slides, to using annotation tools in teams. Have a watch, then maybe have a play with your colleagues - it might just alleviate any anxieties you may have doing it 'live' with your students. Enjoy! The Virtual Bridge Sessions have been recorded and are on the College development Networks YouTube channel.

How can you take your teaching online? Have a look at the free resources from the open university to help you move your teaching online including: Take your teaching online Creating open educational resources An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) Get started with Online Learning Accessibility of eLearning ...and more Click to find the links to all these courses and articles.

I attended the first day of the Jisc Connect More event today (details below) and found it very interesting finding out how other institutions have been achieving their learning and teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. A lot of talk on how they are going to proceed into the next academic session. There is still 2 days left and if you sign up now you will be able to get recordings of the sessions you have missed. Well worth the time to attend or watch the recordings in my opinion. Emma

Learning and Teaching Online - Advice for Practitioners This document, produced by Education Scotland, provides advice for practitioners for delivering learning and teaching online. It contains lots of useful information including links to: Digital Learning Interesting Links Online Learning – What we have learned in 30 years How have we redefined blended learning Lessons from China - Online Learning in a Pandemic Education Scotland Links Education Scotland Digital Skills Webinar Recordings Practitioner support for online remote learning DigiLearn.scot Glow Connect Additional Professional Learning Support Links Google Teacher Centre Microsoft Remote Learning Apple Education Learning Series Click above to download a copy of the PDF Click the image above to link to online version