Switching them on and keeping them on

Online professional development for university teachers

Abstract

This poster describes the design and structure of an online professional development course in e-learning for university teachers. It presents the nature of the course and identifies some of the problems and issues of trying to switch academic staff on to professional development in the area of e-learning based on the experiences within a diverse, multi- campus university community. The intention is to convey some of the key principles required when designing an engaging and sustainable professional development programme, which promotes personal skills at the same time as seeding longer-term pedagogical change.