WEA SYDNEY CURRENT TUTORS ONLY

Having the option of online delivery can greatly expand your teaching capacity, and doing it well can enhance your reputation for delivering high-quality training. Discover how to use classroom technology confidently and purposefully, minimise digital overwhelm, manage online audiences, and maintain energy, interaction, and learner engagement every step of the way.

These sessions bridge the gap between face-to-face expertise and digital delivery, equipping you with the confidence to lead impactful sessions across online and hybrid environments. Through practical activities, real-world examples, and discussion, you’ll learn how to design, develop and source digital resources and inclusive experiences that actively engage remote participants.

Session 1 explores options, techniques and strategies for online delivery, expanding into tutors’ own authentic and current face-to-face course examples and the opportunities and obstacles in transforming for online. Tutors are encouraged to bring examples of their own face-to-face course content and activities. Session 2 explores potential options for translating current practice for online, with a facilitated discussion featuring respectful and open sharing, review and critique.

Whether you’re stepping into online delivery for the first time or looking to elevate your online facilitation, this workshop will give you the essential skills, confidence, and clarity to design and deliver engaging digital learning experiences.

COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1

• Discuss and share experiences in engaging with existing face-to-face/online course content, approaches and strategies
• Critique the use of online course delivery as it relates to various subject areas
• Participate (as student and tutor) in a simulation of an online class, with guided commentary and critique
• Identify similarities and differences between face-to-face and online learning
• Describe core principles of effective online delivery
• Describe a range of digital tools & setup used in online delivery
• Translate face-to-face facilitation skills into online contexts
• Describe strategies and techniques used in online learning related to learner engagement and class management
• Conceive of ways to redesign and adapt current face-to-face activities for online delivery
• Identify common pitfalls & how to avoid them

Session 2

• Discuss and share experiences in engaging with potential online course content, approaches and strategies
• Review, test and troubleshoot various strategies designed to transform course content for online
• Critique a range of digital tools & setup used in online delivery
• Translate face-to-face facilitation skills into online contexts
• Critique, select and compare strategies and techniques used in online learning related to learner engagement and class management
• Review course redesigns and adaptations of current face-to-face activities for online delivery
• Identify common pitfalls & how to avoid them

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Gain a range of potential techniques to keep your learners involved
2. Identify adaptable tools you can implement immediately
3. Have a clear framework for designing sessions that work across a variety of teaching modes