Title: Transforming our Courses
Course: Stage 0 - Orientation > Section: 2. Introducing Online and Blended Teaching & Learning

This is where we start. The focus is on you and the student learning experiences and student success in your courses. Everything else is there to support this ultimate goal.

Course design: 7Cs process

A large part of the work here is about making well informed, conscious design choices about courses that use technology in intelligent ways to support student learning and success. This EdTech course uses a design approach for blended courses developed at Leicester University (2012) by Grainne Conole and others called the 7Cs of Learning Design . Every stage of the course includes some design activities as we move towards having well designed blended courses.

Learning about Teaching with Technology

Learning about technology and especially about Vula (Moodle) is an essential part of this journey. We will use Vula (Moodle) as a home for the course stages and every stage will include activities with a focus on skills and knowledge of technology.

Figure 3: Conole (2013). An update on the 7Cs of Learning Design

To do:

- * Explore the 7C Learning Design Toolkit (Univ Leicester, 2012)
- * Watch a video (1m 34s) on The 7Cs of Educational Learning Design (Holger Goertz, 2020)