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What does Change Makers online learning look like?

Online learning means different things to different people. 

As teachers, our interest is in working with our students - and having the most interactive and valuable experience possible. Whether we are working on campus, in a hybrid class or fully online, we want our classes to be the best they can be – interactive, challenging, engaging, sociable, supportive and stuffed full of great experiences and new things to learn and accomplish.

All our modules are fully interactive. Whether you are learning on campus or online, you will find pre-recorded briefings for class activities. However, you will never be faced with pre-recorded lectures. Our modules do not include lecture format sessions – instead, all of our class time is spent discussing and working together - in teams, as a class and in one-to-one.

In addition to the skills that our modules offer when delivered in person, we pay particular attention to supporting the skills necessary for working online - including advanced team working and collaboration skills. This means that we do work slightly differently when your module is online to when it is on campus. We will always be supporting and building the skills that are relevant to the way that we are working – so that you can take these valuable skills into other types of study and work.

In particular, when we are learning online, we pay more attention to developing social relationships and spending time chatting (as this is tricky to accomplish online, we set this up and make it a critical element of our classes). We spend time working on advanced communication skills for online video collaboration – including body language, expressing emotion, requesting and providing support to each other, building respectful communication, developing confidence to be seen and heard online – and many more things as well.