EED (Law): Interactive Online Design – Tutor & Student Engagement
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Structured learning content
Learning content is structured within folders making use of the ‘Course Resources’ eTool. The structured content is released in a scaffolded manner (i.e. according to each term). The student is able to view the entire term’s content and prepare accordingly.
Tutors engage with student tutorial groups
The Tutors for this module: Renyakeletse Morake, Sakeenah Dramat, Weekend Mfakele, Amy fisher, Thabang Somo, Robyn Gelant - are actively engaging with their students via the Discussion Forum eTool, that is divided into Tutorial groups.
At the start of the term, Tutors shared a welcome message to their groups and outlined the required activities and expectations for the course. These include content lessons, course outlines, regular iKamva communication, assessment deadlines, and basic netiquette rules at the start. Students were further urged to engage by asking questions regarding the information shared and outcomes.
Weekly topics created with Discussion Forum eTool
Students are introduced to weekly topics and tasks within the Discussion Forum. These structured topics are related to the subject-matter and includes: summarising, paraphrasing, referencing, constructing a paragraph, and word classes among others.
Asynchronous Tutor feedback in relation to topics
Students engage in the structured topics and are required to submit their constructive contributions, aligned to each task and topic. Tutors provide feedback on student contributions in an asynchronous manner.
Formative Assessments & Tutor reminders
The structured content/topics is aligned to specific formative assessment exercises, making use of the ‘Tests and Quizzes’ eTool [mainly Multiple Choice Question (MCQ)] question type. *Tutors are expected to remind students about submission deadlines.
Regular communication with students
To ensure effective and interactive learning during this online learning environment phase, lecturer Mahmoud Patel makes use of the Zoom Conferencing space to conduct his ‘live’ lectures. He sends the zoom links via the iKamva ‘Announcement eTool’. *These regular communications are linked to the students’ email addresses. Hence, the announcement posting is also available via their UWC student email.
Student Orientation & FAQs
*On 14 February, lecturer Mahmoud Patel included links via the announcement tool that included frequently asked questions (FAQs) for first-years. This assisted the students during the orientation period.
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