This short professional learning course will familiarise participants with the unique factors that should be considered when building a culture of support for online and distance learners across the institution. The course will cover designing, developing and evaluating provision of learner support services in online and distance education programmes. It will provide participants with an opportunity to design and develop activities, materials, and practices suitable for a distance or online course they currently teach or a programme that they manage. The course activities will be so designed that participants experience a sense of community and share with their peers, a variety of academic and non-academic support activities, materials and practices that they have developed throughout the course.


This short professional learning course will familiarise participants with the unique factors that should be considered when building a culture of support for online and distance learners across the institution. The course will cover designing, developing and evaluating provision of learner support services in online and distance education programmes. It will provide participants with an opportunity to design and develop activities, materials, and practices suitable for a distance or online course they currently teach or a programme that they manage. The course activities will be so designed that participants experience a sense of community and share with their peers, a variety of academic and non-academic support activities, materials and practices that they have developed throughout the course.

This  Moodle space has been created to support the project aimed at  advancing the development and use of educational resources (OER) among Faculty at The UWI, St Augustine. This is where  UWI authors can implement their respective course content modules