Team Teaching in E-Learning and Blended Learning Settings

Abstract

E-learning and blended learning settings pose special challenges for guiding and supporting students. Although a wide variety of digitalised instructional designs exists, the spatial distance in synchronous as well as the time-lag in asynchronous teaching and learning environments require special attention to ensure a successful learning process. In particular, non-collaborative and nonparticipatory instructional designs bear the risk of an insufficient supervision structure. If sufficient teaching capacity is available, team teaching can be a solution to overcome the disadvantages of such e-learning and blended learning settings. Based on the example of the study module Academic Research and Writing, held at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, a complex multilevel instructional scenario is presented that exemplifies the opportunities that can be potentially realised by team teaching. Insights derived from the case study are selected and discussed.