An excerpt from Stephen Bright's Managing Workloads presentation at WCELfest08.

1. 1
Self-care model
What can lecturers do to look
after themselves ?

2. 2
Self-care model – course content
• Introductory activities for students to familiarise
them with the online environment
• Use pre-existing online resources
• Develop subject resources that can be used in
multiple modes e.g. ftf or online
• Form teams to develop & teach courses – share
the load
• Very clear instructions for assignments and
tasks

3. 3
Self-care model - interaction
• Have an FAQ forum so all students see
answers to common questions
• Encourage use of asynchronous peer-led
discussion
• Develop student – student learning
activities that are moderated by lecturer
• Use self-marking quizzes as formative
assessment

4. 4
Self-care model - interaction
• Set clear limits to response times (e.g. forum
postings) to manage student expectations
• Set ‘office hours’ for informal student enquiries
• Set aside 20 -30 mins each working day as
scheduled ‘online course time’ per course
• Direct student queries to specified channels e.g.
Dialogue module, course enquiries forum (NOT
email)

5. 5
Self-care model – support services
• Use admin staff for admin functions e.g.
scanning documents, converting files etc.
• Use WCeL Educational Developers to
help design learning activities, get new
ideas
• Let Helpdesk know if particular technical
problems are happening &/or persisting

6. 5
Self-care model – support services
• Use admin staff for admin functions e.g.
scanning documents, converting files etc.
• Use WCeL Educational Developers to
help design learning activities, get new
ideas
• Let Helpdesk know if particular technical
problems are happening &/or persisting