Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: 8 Skills for Successful Online Learning

On February 16, 2022, the BUILD-IT Project and Arizona State University in collaboration with a number of universities in Vietnam organized a webinar "Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: 8 Skills for Successful Online Learning" with the participation of nearly 100 officials and lecturers.

The workshop was designed to assist faculty in effective and efficient online instruction by identifying skills lecturers need to impart to students. While many workshops focus on teaching skills, this workshop explores best practices lecturers can teach their students to use that reduce common barriers to academic success in an online environment. Not every barrier to academic success can be reduced by the instructor, so this 4-hour course provided eight tangible, practical student-centered skills that are designed to allow faculty to set higher academic standards for their online students. By exploring these skills with students, instructors expand the possibility for a more robust, accessible academic learning environment. The skills presented range from personal decision-making to technology awareness to creative motivation.

Webinar "Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: 8 Skills for Successful Online Learning"

Accordingly, 08 successful online learning skills include:

- Time Management/Stick to a Study Schedule;

- Creating Dedicated Study Spaces;

- Creating Smart Goals/Goal-Oriented;

- Connecting with Other Learners;

- Developing Self-Motivation;

- Understanding Personal Reward;

- Developing Technical Skills;

- Studying a Topic of Interest.

The structure of this course includes an engaging PowerPoint presentation with opportunities to engage with the instructor via virtual engagement. This is followed by several short, target-specific breakout sessions designed to allow participants to learn from each other.

Several short, target specific breakout sessions designed to allow participants to learn from each other

Faculty participating in this training should expect to be able to perform the following skills effectively and efficiently:

- Recount the issues they have experienced in their recent online environment to provide a context in which these skills can be evaluated and applied;

- Identify potential student-barriers barriers to academic success in an online environment;

- Differentiate barriers to academic success that can be reduced through teacher intervention;

- Explore which skills are relevant to their personal teaching context;

- Begin to develop and articulate how they will present these skills to their students.

Previously, on January 11 and 13, 2022, Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI) in collaboration with Arizona State University (ASU) and BUILD-IT Project organized a webinar "Effective Assessment and Evaluation of Student Outcome Attainment" with the participation of 50 HaUI officials and lecturers.