Teaching a large, mostly online cohort so students feel part of it

PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change has around 400 working health professionals enrolled each year, most studying online and many asynchronously. Whether students in a cohort like this engage depends partly on whether they feel like they belong to it, so I treat inclusion as a course design issue. I speak directly to students who will watch the recording (not just the ones live

Assessing peer-led online discussion

Online discussion forums often turn into a series of disconnected posts. With A/Prof Anita Heywood I developed a structure and process for assessing students' facilitation of asynchronous peer-led discussion, so that students take responsibility for moderating each other's learning and reflect on how they did it. In PHCM9615 Primary Health Care,

Teaching and supporting postgraduate students, 2018-2026

PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change has around 400 working health professionals enrolled each a year, most studying online and many asynchronously. Whether students in a cohort like this engage depends partly on whether they feel they belong, so I treat inclusion as part of course design. I speak directly to students who will watch the recording, voice students' written