Presentation of Alan Tait for EDEN's Education in time of pandemic webinar series on 'How to engage and support students online' - 27 April 2020, 17:00 CEST More info: https://www.eden-online.org/how-to-engage-and-support-students-online/

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2. Supporting students online
Alan Tait
Professor of Distance Education and Development
(em.), The Open University UK
Fellow, Centre for Distance Education, University of
London
April 27 2020
alan.tait@open.ac.uk
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3. Campus to online: continuities and discontinuities
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4. Online learning: not the deficit model
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5. Experience to build on: LMS in campus and
blended teaching
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6. Social practice of online interaction
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7. Benefits of flexibility
Open to people, places, methods and ideas!
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8. Supporting students is integrated in whole online
system
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9. How to manage empathy online?
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10. Understanding what is happening, and doing
something about it.
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11. Organisational principles for Student Support system
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR OPEN AND
DISTANCE EDUCATION
Student success in open, distance
and e-learning
Author: Alan Tait, April 2015
• pre-study information, advice, guidance and
admission
• curriculum or programme design for student
success
• intervention at key points and in response to
student need
• assessment to support learning as well as to
judge achievement
• individualised and personalised systems of
support to students
• information and logistical systems that
communicate between all relevant
participants in the system
• managing for student success
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12. Don’t look back! Let go of the past.
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