Presentation to EMALink meeting on webinars. Loughborough University Library, May 2015.

1. Delivering online training
sessions to distance learners
Helen Clough, EMALINK, 20 May 2015
www.slideshare.net/helenalex

2. ‘OU Library in the snow - Milton Keynes,
England’ by Scorpions and Centaurs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sshb/3264845610/
Why?

5. Blackboard
Collaborate
Plan

6. Welcome to this Library
training session
1. Please do the Audio Setup Wizard
(Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard…)
2. Indicate whether you have a working
microphone using the Yes/No options

7. OU Live interface
Talk
Raise
hand
Input here
Text chat
Content window

8. Useful buttons
• Polling
• Show emotion
• Step Away

12. Generic vs targeted
• 2014-15 figures (up to mid-May)
Sessions
Total
attendance
Highest
attendance
Av.
attendance
Generic 91 777 44 9
Targeted 22 851 130 39

14. • “Overcoming” the technology (and fear)
• You need an audience
• Virtual versus face-to-face
• Seeing what a student sees
• Shadowing and listening to recordings
• Mentoring, small groups and peer feedback
• Practice, practice, practice
• The students are grateful and forgiving
What we’ve learned

15. '******* to The Open University' by dougclow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougclow/4397517387/
Measuring
the
impact?

16. helen.clough@open.ac.uk
@helenalex
www.slideshare.net/helenalex