Tipperary ETB is offering an online learning opportunity for its FET staff. As blended learning becomes more common place across the sector, this H2/FESS course will support educators in improving the quality of their online offerings to learners. The goal of the course is to help participants to create a plan for moving some elements of their course or module online.

The course consists of a series of four online sessions, three of which participants will do in their own time and online, and one which will be live online on 13th October 2020. The four sessions will allow participants to reimagine their course/module to include online learning. Participants will have a blended learning experience where they themselves will participate in a mix of synchronous and asynchronous learning activities.

Participants will initially undertake the three asynchronous online sessions in their own time and it is expected that each session will take up to 30 minutes. The three sessions are as follows:
1. Reflecting on Covid-19 - Where we came from and where we might go?
2. Blended Learning - What might it look like in your context?
3. Designing Blended Learning - The Foundations of Learning Design

These three sessions will be followed by a fourth session – a live online reimaging workshop, scheduled for 13th October 2020 from 10.00 - 12.00, via Zoom. The goal of the workshop is that participants will have a process and a structure by which they can design blended learning that meets their learners’ needs. This session will be available to those who have completed the previous 3 asynchronous sessions. It is expected that participants will have had time to reflect and begin planning their learning designs in advance of the live workshop.

The live online workshop will:
• focus on designing a blended learning approach for a programme, module or a centre
• be discussion based and it will use elements of the ABC Learning Framework, Microsoft 21 CLD materials and other appropriate tools
• facilitate discussion and sharing of participants’ designs