COFA Online Course Author Fellowship Program

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The COFA Online Course Author Fellowship Program was developed to provide academic staff with time and support to gain skills, understanding and confidence to write and deliver quality online art and design courses.

Participants in the Fellowship Program comprises existing full-time staff and industry professionals who work within an active and dynamic community of peers, and are supported by a series of regular workshops. In addition, COFA Online offers a Fellowship Alumni Program, where all teachers of online courses can maintain their community and meet regularly to reflect on their online teaching practice.

Through this program, COFA Online’s courses have grown in number from one in 2003, to thirty in 2006, with around seven hundred and twenty five student enrolments. Evaluations have shown that the level of student satisfaction within these courses is consistently high, due to the quality of material being produced from the pooled knowledge and resources of the Fellowship community.

COFA Online will be focusing on postgraduate coursework online education as we head into 2007. If you are an academic or industry professional who is interested in writing and teaching a fully online course in a creative discipline please contact us, as we are always interested in working with enthusiastic people with new ideas in education.



POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

With the introduction of COFA Online's new fully online Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design by coursework, a new Fellowship program was required to assist course authors in the development of quality postgradaute online electives. The Postgraduate Fellowship draws upon the techniques and resources established through the undergraduate Fellowship program, and focuses on ensuring the pedagogy of the electives is to a high postgraduate standard.


COFA Online staff are also available to assist in similar staff training by facilitating workshops in online course structuring and delivery techniques through tailored Course Author Fellowship Programs at other institutions. The workshops can be aimed at differing levels of experience and over varying time periods. Contact us for further information.

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