Staff Training
Helping academic staff create effective online or blended courses
The rapid shift to move higher education courses to fully online or blended delivery has impacted heavily on academic staff.
Continuing to develop their competencies and confidence to create and deliver these more effectively will help your institution provide more engaging and supportive learning experiences for students.
Access focused training developed by experts
Our staff training service can help support academics, particularly those with limited experience of online or blended delivery, to make courses they are delivering online successful and engaging.
Developed by experts in online teaching and learning specifically for higher education staff, this suite of training includes four cost-effective, self-paced online courses, as well as customised, ‘live’ train the trainer workshops.
Used together or independently, these training opportunities can help you equip your colleagues with the skills and confidence to be successful in online teaching.
Self-paced, online courses
Our series of short, self-paced courses offer immediate guidance and advice to academic staff responsible for developing and delivering online or highly blended courses to provide a consistent and high-quality learning experience. Each 1-hour course provides just-in-time development opportunities that will complement existing internal training and can be made easily accessible via your VLE.
The content has been designed to offer a combination of theoretical and practical guidance, supported by short self-assessment quizzes to check understanding and opportunities to reflect on current and future practice.
Offering maximum flexibility, access to any of the four available courses can be purchased just for the staff who require this type of development, with an option to top-up as required. Our reporting system also enables you to see at-a-glance how many staff have accessed each course.
Live (virtual) bespoke staff training
Our bespoke virtual training sessions enable you to provide colleagues with highly tailored and contextualised ‘train the trainer’ support with key strategic aspects of developing online or highly blended courses.
Designed for Heads of Department, Technology Enhanced Learning or Professional Development teams, the content of our live sessions is based on the identified needs of your institution, department, school or discipline(s), the level of staff experience, as well as the particular challenges and goals of different learners.
Our training will support your development and delivery aims (whether blended or fully online) and builds on academics’ experiences of online teaching, competences in creating appropriate and effective curricula, content or activities and confidence with managing students and technology together. Subject to an assessment of your needs, our services can include:
Explore how our training services can help ensure your courses deliver an inclusive and accessible learning experience for all students.
Please get in touch via the form below to discuss the most appropriate training to enhance the planning, design, development or delivery of new and existing online or blended courses in your department, school or institution.