LTA Connect: Post-normal learning and teaching: what lessons have we learned?

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Session Outline

Nothing about the past year has been normal. Even in institutions that have been supporting learning online for years, the external circumstances for staff and students have changed, and the learning and teaching experiences will reflect that. What started as an emergency 'pivot' of higher education to online learning, has become a prolonged period of uncertainty. This session will look back on the learning points for online teaching since the start of the pandemic, drawing on data from students and staff collected during the academic year 2020-21 at Edinburgh Napier University. Evaluating the university's Digital Support Partnership project, it will link evidence from digital education research to examples of teaching practices. While digital technologies have provided solutions for some of the dilemmas educators have been presented with, there have been costs, not all of which were immediately apparent. Listening to students has never been more important and there are opportunities now to reconfigure aspects of learning and teaching which centre on both our staff and our learners' wellbeing. This will be an interactive session.

Presenter

Louise is a Lecturer in the Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier University. She is the programme leader for the MSc in Blended and Online Education and also teaches and supervises on the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning Teaching and Academic Practice in Higher Education programme.​ She has worked in a number of universities in the UK as a learning technologist, academic developer, lecturer and software developer. She is also an experienced theatre director and practitioner, and likes to explore creative approaches to academic development.

Her PhD, from Glasgow Caledonian University, was on the role of theory in teaching with technology in higher education. Her research interests include the relationship between digital teaching and theory, critical digital pedagogy, open education practices, digital literacies and academic development.

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