Before the pandemic struck, researchers from the RELIEF Centre and Lebanese University were already cooking up a plan to introduce university teachers to more online methods. We had seen first hand that online methods had been successful in enabling students to access learning when universities were closed during the protests in Lebanon in October 2019.
This time last year (July 2019) we were preparing to run a workshop with the Faculty Fellows of the Center for Innovative Learning at LAU. We had been invited to work with LAU colleagues on ways of moving teaching from traditional mode to blended or online modes, including MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). We have been co-designing MOOCs with colleagues from LAU, so this was a great opportunity to share our projects, pedagogies and co-design methodology more widely. The Faculty Fellows agreed to help us with our research by refining the co-design tools we were developing.
