Resources for online teaching and lockdown

BISA team

3 April 2020

To help you with your transition to online teaching we've pulled together some resources you might find useful. In particular, we recommend the articles related to making your online teaching accessible and inclusive.

If you know of anything we've missed please do let us know by emailing our Communications Manager Chrissie Duxson: Chrissie.Duxson@bisa.ac.uk so that we can keep this page updated.

Online teaching advice and guidance

Coronavirus: 14 simple tips for better online teaching http://theconversation.com/coronavirus-14-simple-tips-for-better-online-teaching-133573
How to Be a Better Online Teacher https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-online-teaching
e-Learning and Distance Learning Policy https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/academicservices/qualitymanual/studiesawayfromtheuniversity/e-learningpolicy.aspx
Dan Hough, The tricky path from offline to online teaching; five misconceptions https://www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/tricky-path-offline-online-teaching-five-misconceptions
Towards Best Practices in Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education https://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no2/keengwe_0610.pdf
Free OU course: Take your teaching online https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education/take-your-teaching-online/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab
16 Answers To Your Questions About Teaching Online https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2020/03/16-answers-to-your-questions-about-teaching-online/
Alternatives to Zoom https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21202945/zoom-alternative-conference-video-free-app-skype-slack-hangouts-jitsi
How To Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teach-online
Accessible Design for Classrooms https://onlinegrad.syracuse.edu/blog/accessible-design-for-classrooms/
48 Bloom’s Taxonomy Apps for Your Critical Thinking https://custom-writing.org/blog/blooms-taxonomy-apps

BISA webinars

We've held wide range of webinars on teaching and learning. You can find them all in our Learning and Teaching playlist on our YouTube channel.

BISA articles

The tricky path from offline to online teaching; five misconceptions - Dan Hough shares best practice on the transition from offline to online teaching
Resources for online teaching - We pulled together a list covering online teaching, inclusion and help from publishers
Books for the lockdown - BISA Chair, Mark Webber, asked academics and publishers what lockdown reading they would recommend
Adapting to lockdown - A summary of discussions from our PGN virtual meet-up on adapting to lockdown
Networking in an age of social distancing - Peter Finn provides tips from a range of academics on how to network in an age of social distancing
‘No buildings from September: what on earth do we do about the learning experience’? – event takeaways and reflections - BISA Communications Manager, Chrissie Duxson, reflects on the recent one-day conference from Aula and WonkHE
COVID-19 - BISA Global Health Working Group research and response - A look at the activities of the Global Health Working Group and members during the COVID-19 crisis
Beyond alternative: assessment as the forgotten piece in online learning - Simon Lightfoot, Simon Rofe and Helen Williams discuss
Access to information in a changed learning environment - Stephen Thornton discusses libraries, book chapters, licensing and financial implications
Teaching IPE online: thinking about ‘pandemic pedagogies’ in the IPE classroom - An excellent piece from our International Political Economy Working Group
Do you want to write a COVID dissertation? - Sophie Harman, a member of our Global Health Working Group, gives some advice about coming up with dissertation topics related to COVID.