How does a course template change teachers’ teaching perspective?

How can you help your institution's lecturers shift their teaching perspective from face-to-face teaching to online facilitation?

How can you help your lecturers create multimedia-rich and pedagogically robust online courses?

The worldwide trend toward online learning is pushing our tertiary teaching from a face-to-face approach to online facilitation to better engage students. This brings a challenge: how to transition lecturers from face-to-face teaching to online facilitation? If the lecturers are overloaded and haven’t had time to attend the professional development training, what alternative ways can help them shift their teaching perspective towards online facilitation?

This presentation explains how constructivism and connectivism learning theories are integrated into a course template. Then it demonstrates how this course template helps lecturers, who have prior face-to-face teaching experience, shift their teaching perspectives from a face-to-face teaching approach to online facilitation to engage students in their online learning. It also shows how this course template helps lecturers, especially novices, create multimedia-rich and pedagogically robust online courses.

The facilitator

Yong Liu is an Academic Partner – Digital Learning at Manukau Institute of Technology, responsible for Canvas (LMS) administration and staff training for teaching online. He has more than 10 years of e-learning consultation and development experience, and 6+ years of ICT administration. He is currently an EdD candidate at the University of Auckland. His MEng in Computer Graphics was at China University of Agriculture and BEng in Missile Automatic Control at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Teaching online and student engagement are the development trend for current education in the digital age. Moving to online facilitation, tertiary teachers have experienced enormous challenges in both teaching strategy and course design as well as student engagement. His current research endeavours to help tertiary teachers adjust their teaching perspectives to support online learning and ease their online course development using learning theories underpinned course template as an intervention.

The organiser

Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ) brings this webinar to you.

This event will take place on 11 August 2026 at 1pm NZST. Check your time zone if the event time is not calculated for your time zone above.

The event image is by Hal Gatewood, shared on Unsplash.