45° Learning: A Guide to Organising Teaching Online in the COVID Pandemic, Including Peer Observation Revision

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COVID-19; Pandemics; Faculty Development; Teaching Methods; Teacher Competencies; College Faculty; Lecture Method; School Closing; Video Technology; Peer Evaluation; Lesson Plans; Planning; Work Environment; Radio; Technology Uses in Education; Foreign Countries; Online Courses; Distance Education; Interaction; Feedback (Response); Videoconferencing; Computer Software

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The paper suggests ways to benefit student learning online by improving staff training. The paper challenges the assumption that classroom based pedagogy applies to online teaching, with alternative ways that resolve the stress and confusion during the pandemic in the move to permanent blended teaching in the coming year. The paper is the 'front end", a summary guide to online teaching, a demonstration rather than a theoretical framework of well-tried methods used in BBC School Radio, written after creating the examples of videos embedded in web pages during June-December 2020. The paper is a reflection on these solutions presented as an unwritten pedagogy - 'The Knowledge', in the making of education radio broadcasts. Essentially it is self-awareness and self-assessment training of teachers as radio producers evolved between 1935 and 1996 with a handful of expert colleagues, in an atmosphere of creative commitment to learning. In 45° Learning, the author attempts to 'Show Not Tell' how HE lecturers can replace declarative lecturing in a nuanced form of a conversational engagement for online lecturing. The title draws attention to the body-mind element in tacit knowledge and an essential requirement for teaching online: (1) The physical organisation of a lecturer's home online studio; (2) Tradecraft videos demonstrations of creating memorable student learning; (3) Adapts the peer observation form, and online T&L lesson planner; and (4) Extensive Working documents and Production notes of making resources.

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2021

EJ1305227