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In the age of digital revolution, technology plays a vital role in transforming education practices. Online courses are gaining a lot of attention and demand in recent times as universities try to manage resources and cope with increasing number of student enrolments. In this study, an existing electrical safety course comprising of various activities like Virtual Reality, Case Study Presentations and having face to face (f2f) collaborative lectures was converted to be offered completely online. Team activity like case study presentations enhance student’s teamwork, leadership and communication skills which are extremely important for the industry. Safety at workplace is taken very seriously in Australia and this knowledge is widely required in most industries. With a fore sight of offering this course as a training module in the industry, efforts were made to convert this course online. An evidence-based approach was taken to develop various online teaching methods validated by learning theories. Several challenges were faced while incorporating existing teamwork activities and building an online community. COVID 19 helped test the efficacy of these strategies on learning outcomes of the students that were overseas.
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Thite, S., Ravishankar, J., Ambikairajah, E., Ortiz, A.M. (2021). Work in Progress: “Embedding Graduate Skills in Online Courses”. In: Auer, M.E., Centea, D. (eds) Visions and Concepts for Education 4.0. ICBL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1314. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67209-6_11
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