Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC)

Enabling Learning and Enhancing Effectiveness in a Remote Environment:

The Human Resource Development Centre helps staff members think about ways to make the teaching-learning assessment process more effective. In times when face-to-face learning and teaching are not possible, it is useful to evaluate these methods and prepare ourselves to teach using alternative methods. Firstly, we must understand that if any of our teaching is one-way traffic (we speak and students listen and take notes), then it can easily be done via remote methods. Face-to-face sessions must necessarily involve students in the learning activity; otherwise, it is a waste of their time. Bearing this in mind, consider the following factors as we face a few more days of isolation, and the possibility of having to cover large amounts of our syllabi when we return to work: