Teaching large classes online: Jo Coldwell shares her experiences

Jo Coldwell Associate Head (Teaching and Learning) School of Engineering and Information Technology Jo Coldwell has been with the School of Engineering and Information Technology since 1997 when she started investigating online teaching to support an off campus unit on computer ethics. She has been involved in online teaching ever since, at the School, Faculty and University levels. Her research interests are in the area of eLearning, particularly the use of technology to support, and the impact of technology on, teaching and learning.

Planning

Getting started (Summary; Audio (3 MB); Transcript)

Keeping things manageable for myself (Summary; Audio (2 MB); Transcript)

Getting students started

Getting my students started (Summary;Audio (5 MB); Transcript)

Ensuring that my students are able to operate in DSO (Summary; Audio (4 MB) ;Transcript)

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During the semester

Ensuring that my students are able to understand the content (Summary; Audio (5 MB) ;Transcript)

Managing issues related to assessment (Summary; Audio (4 MB) ;Transcript)

Managing marks (Summary; Audio (3 MB) ; Transcript)

Teaching across multiple campuses (Summary; Audio (3 MB) ;Transcript)

Ensuring consistency (Summary; Audio (2 MB) ; Transcript)

Managing lurkers (Summary; Audio (3 MB) ; Transcript)

Managing expectations of students (Summary; Audio (2 MB) ;Transcript)

Managing communication (Summary; Audio (3 MB) ; Transcript)

Controlling my student email (Summary;Audio (4 MB) ; Transcript)

Disasters do happen! (Summary; Audio (3 MB) ; Transcript)

Managing diversity online (Summary;Audio (2 MB) ; Transcript)

Managing tutors

Working with tutors (Summary; Audio (2 MB) ; Transcript)

My approach (Summary; Audio (790 KB) ; Transcript)

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Resources

http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/largeclasses/

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/publications_resources/other_publications/online_teaching_and_learning_in_higher_education.htm

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/publications_resources/other_publications/lifelong_learning_in_australia.htm

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/publications_resources/other_publications/lifelong_learning_an_annotated_bibliography.htm

Coldwell, J., Goold, A., Craig, A. and Mustard, J. (2006) Gender and Equity in eLearning, AusWIT 2006: Participation One Year On: Proceedings of the 2006 Australian Women in IT Conference, AusWIT, Australia

Coldwell, J., Craig, A. and Goold, A. (2006) Student Perspectives of Online Learning, ALT-C 2006: The Next Generation Research Proceedings: 13th International Conference ALT-C-2006, The Association for Learning Technology, England

Goold, A. and Coldwell, J. (2005) Teaching Ethics in a Virtual Classroom , The Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pp. 232-236, The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., United States

Newlands, D. and Coldwell, J. (2005) Managing Student Expectations Online, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3583, pp. 355-363, Springer-Verlag, Germany

Smith, P., Smith, S., Coldwell, J. and Murphy, K.* (2005) Solving problems collaboratively online: experiences of Australian and Chinese heritage university students, 8th IFIP world conference on computers in education, pp. 1-8, WCCE, Cape Town, South Africa

Smith, P., Coldwell, J., Smith, S. and Murphy, K.* (2005) Learning through computer-mediated communication: a comparison of Australian and Chinese heritage students, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Vol 42, No 2, pp. 123-134, Routledge, UK

Coldwell, J. (2004) News from Down Under: DE + IT = eLearning?, Interact, Issue 28, pp. 20-21, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Coldwell, J. and Newlands, D. (2003) A Model of Online Teaching and Learning, Computer Based Learning in Science Proceedings Volume I: New Technologies and Their Applications in Education, pp. 77-85, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Coldwell, J. (2003) Mapping Pedagogy to Technology - A Simple Model, Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2003: Second International Conference, pp. 180-192, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Germany

Coldwell, J. and Wells, J. (2003) Students' Perspective of Online Learning, Quality Education @ a Distance: IFIP TC3/ WF3.6 Working Conference on Quality Education @ at a Distance , pp. 101-108, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA

Coldwell, J. (2000) It is possible to teach computer ethics via distance education!, 2nd Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference, AiCE 2000, Canberra

Spratt, C., Palmer, S. and Coldwell, J. (2000) Using technologies in teaching: an initiative in academic staff development, Journal of Educational Technology & Society, Vol 3, No 3, pp. 455-461, IEEE, New Zealand

Salmon, Gilly (2000) E-modeerating: the key to teaching and learning online. London: Kogan Page

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