Any Adult Educators who can help with Tech?

[alldressedupinblue]

Thanks for reading. I've been asked to move a course we teach by my employer online. We deliver it "in person" using PowerPoint in a classroom.

For background, we have budget to set up online. We are not an educator, we are a private company.

Techie friends have mentioned Academy of Mine, Learn Worlds and Moodle. I've also heard of Google classroom.

This is a long way out of my comfort zone: can any kind Mumsnetter tell me what you use in your company, and why you like it?

Thank you!

Bumping for anyone not watching Cummings!

Padlet is good for uploading after the fact as is moodle

A lot of online adult courses are run through zoom or teams at the moment

Not sure what packages are out there other then these

I like zoom as I can share my screen with the students and it can be used on a multitude of platforms without them having to download or log in. If a student/tutor doesn’t want personal background you can use a fake background

It depends on how you’re company are setting it up; you could pre record you presenting send it out then do a q&a afterwards.

I’m currently doing the PowerPoint on zoom with screen share on ...

However I can not wait to get back to face to face teaching...

What is it you want the tech for? The starting position should always be what you want the learners to be able to do, and then you find the tech that enables that. From what you’ve described you are looking for a learning management system (LMS), sometimes called a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). But that doesn’t really tally with what you’ve said about currently delivering F2f via PowerPoint.

A VLE is create for providing learners with content and enabling asynchronous learning. If you want synchronous (real-time) learning you need some sort of video conference/webinar software, such as hoplittlebunnyhop mentioned. Of course, it’s common to have both a VLE and webinar software.

So the first thing to do is work out what you want to do.

*great not create

I agree with @Amummyatlast. When the course is running face-to-face, how much of it is interactive (eg discussion-based) and how much is just lecturing?

@hoplittlebunnyhop @Amummyatlast @Cornishmumofone

Thank you for your replies! I think I might recommend Zoom along with a LMS. For the LMS I'd need it to be a place to store course info and do testing, I think.

@alldressedupinblue If they have Office365 then you could use Teams instead of Zoom. OneNote isn't an LMS but that or SharePoint might be enough for the organisation of course materials.