Life at ECU | Creating + Learning

Teaching + Learning Centre

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Life at ECU | Creating + Learning

Teaching + Learning Centre

Teaching Online

The Teaching + Learning Centre provides a range of support in online teaching for faculty and instructors.

Explore these resources to help you foster community, clear communication and accessibility in your online courses.

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Online/Hybrid Teaching Checklist

This Checklist can help you design or re-design an online or hybrid course. To learn more about modes of course delivery, visit our Getting Started with Teaching at ECU page.

Best Practices for Online Teaching

Our Best Practices for Online Teaching Guide highlights some steps you can take to help students succeed in an online setting.

Communication + Engagement

In this section, you’ll find recommendations, activities and tips to help you connect with students. Some of these have been collected from ECU instructors with years of experience teaching online classes.

Creating Accessible Courses

Just like in our face-to-face classes, we need to consider how accessible our online teaching materials may be to those with differing abilities and learning needs.