1st Edition
Moving Your University Course Online Case Studies on Design, Development and Delivery
Part 1 Creating an Online Degree
1. Moving your course online: It’s translation, not conversion
Annika Herb, Michael Kilmister, and Clare Lloyd
2. Creating the BA Online: Reinventing the degree through pedagogical innovation
Catharine Coleborne
3. Reflections on the partnership between FutureLearn and a regional Australian university: An ecological perspective
Monty King
Part 2 Case Studies in Online Teaching and Assessment
4. FutureLearn as a learning environment: Striving for a community of inquiry
Mitchell J. Taylor and Julia Cook
5. Creating engaging videos for online teaching
Sacha E. Davis and Adam Khamis
6. Teaching Screen and Cultural Studies online
Hamish Ford and Rebecca Beirne
Part 3 Challenges and Opportunities in Adaptation
7. Designing a History course for online and face-to-face delivery: ‘The Australian Experience’
Michael Kilmister, Kate Ariotti, and James Bennett
8. Teaching challenging material: Technological affordances of staggered asynchronous online learning
Jessica Ford
9. Funking it up: Teaching poetry as creative writing in the digital age
David Musgrave
10. Fantasy cricket: From ethnographic film to virtual anthropology fieldwork
Hedda Haugen Askland, Michael Kilmister, Kate Senior, Adrian Mereles, Chris Lawrence, Tim Garside, and SOCA1020 Class of 2021
11. Easing eco-anxiety in an online environmental Sociology course
Jai Cooper and Chris Lawrence
Part 4 Impacts and Evaluation
12. Academic development for effective online learning design
Clare Lloyd, Annika Herb, and Michael Kilmister
13. Student evaluation of online teaching and learning: Notes on theory and practice
Paul Sijpkes and Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
14. Being an online educator: Reflections on iterative design of a transdisciplinary humanities course
Julie McIntyre
15. Australian Underworlds: Online teaching as a pathway to building scholarly networks
Nancy Cushing, Alana Piper, and Vicky Nagy
16. Conclusion: Reflecting on the BA Online project
Catharine Coleborne and Clare Lloyd
Afterword
Biography
Michael Kilmister is an academic developer at the University of Reading, UK. He was awarded his PhD in History from the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he worked in several teaching and learning roles for over a decade. He has published widely on academic development and education.
Annika Herb is the education development lead at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research explores academic development, teaching and learning and young adult literature. She is an associate editor of IJYAL and a co-editor of Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Springer, 2023).
Clare Lloyd is the senior manager of Education Development at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research focuses on online education, academic development and technology-enhanced learning. She is on the editorial board of Advances in Online Education: A Peer-Reviewed Journal.
