Have you implemented eLearning in your institution?

[Jackie Barker]

Have you implemented distance learning at your institution for technical offerings?  If so, any tips you would be willing to share?

[dmbrooks]

At Box Hill Institute, we moved to fully remote delivery in Mid March.

My advice for anyone considering this:

• Record your lessons in advance.
  • Break them down into short digestible topics. This will avoid the students getting bored by long winded talks.
  • It also avoids any potential tech failure that could occur trying to record the lesson live.
• Record and demonstrate each lab activity, that way if a student gets stuck, they have a walk-through guide they can follow along with.
• Do a live interactive class as if it was in the classroom to reinforce the above activities.
• Use discussion forums to get the students sharing their knowledge and keep lines of communication open.

We have NetLab so I can also do a live supervision of lab activities.