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the 2-day programme design sprints. The lessons learned from this initiative
shows that learning online is di erent and that institutional level support, and

support structures, for educators who wish to move their teaching practices online

is necessary. The implementation of such in both DCU has been shown to be
beneficial for both academic sta and online/blended students.

References

Bozkurt, A., Jung, I., Xiao, J., Vladimirschi, V., Schuwer, R., Egorov, G., Lambert,

S.R., Al-Freih, M., Pete, J., Olcott Jr., D., Rodes, V., Aranciaga, I., Bali, M.,

Alvarez Jr., AV., Roberts, J., Pazurek, A., Ra aghelli, JE., Panagiotou, N., de
Coëtlogon, P., ... Paskevicius, M. (2020). A global outlook to the interruption

of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty
and crisis. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 15(1), 1-126.

Coker, H. (2018). Purpose, pedagogy and philosophy: “Being” an online lecturer.

International review of research in open and distributed learning, 19(5).
Farrell, O. (2022). Learning design in the time of COVID-19: The Digital Learning

Design Unit story. Open Praxis, 14(2), 162-171.
Farrell, O., Brunton, J., Ní Shé, C., Costello, E., (2021). #Openteach: Professional

development for open online educators. #Openteach Project.

Ní Shé, C., Farrell, O., Brunton, J., Costello, E., Donlon, E., Trevaskis, S., Eccles, S.
(2019). Teaching online is di erent: Critical perspectives from the literature.

Dublin City University.

Additional Resources

1. A teaching online resource bank (as seen in Figure 4), created by the DLDU

in DCU, which contains resources from the #OpenTeach project and useful
external resources such as design checklists, frameworks, plan guides, best

practice and teaching tips, and information on how to support online
students: Teaching Online - Resource Bank (NIDL website)

2. This blog post on the Association for Learning Technology website provides
further details the design approach of, and the challenges encountered

during, the DLDU’s two day programme sprints.

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