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Learning to Teach Online - new online series from UNSW

I have been watching some of the videos in the Learning to Teach Online series from the University of New South Wales. The series covers various topics related to online teaching and they are divided into episodes which include a short video plus a PDF. I had some trouble getting the PDFs to download, but the videos played fine for me.

I think the Managing your Time video is a good one for new online instructors:



Overall, this looks like a good resource.

Comments

Simon McIntyre said…
Hi, Thanks for your comments on the Learning to Teach Online resource.

Sorry you have trouble downloading the PDF files. Can you let me know what happened so I can look into this for you?

Simon McIntyre - Project Leader, Learning to Teach Online.
Brian Reilly said…
Hi Simon,

The PDFs did eventually download, but it took several minutes before they did. The first couple of times I clicked on the PDF link, it timed out and I got an error message.

I have a high speed connection, so maybe something else was going on.

Anyway, I appreciate all the work that went into this project and I think it will be helpful to many people.

-Brian Reilly
Simon McIntyre said…
Thanks I think UNSW's server that hosts the PDFs may have had trouble. I may move them somewhere else. Thanks very much for your kind words and your support in spreading the word!
Brian Reilly said…
Thanks Simon. I will spend some more time this week with the videos in your series that I haven't watched yet.

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