If you’re slogging away at online teaching and finding it hard, time-consuming and tiring - then know that if you were delivering online courses and programmes in the best and most mature teams and universities in the world for online ed, you’d have a much, much longer...1/

lead time think 6-12 months and be part of an experienced team of designer’s, developers et al, everything would be carefully calibrated and designed and you would be highly supported...2/

To be teaching online in a time of global world crisis, with hardly any time for preparation, with (as is the case in a lot of universities) hardly any learning design support and design roles...3/

with technology and processes that seem to make it harder not easier, with a body of students equally having a very hard time of it, who in the main chose universities for a campus based experience...4/

and for whom (if school leavers in particularly) the flexibility and greater need for self regulation and discipline in learning is likely to be doubly challenging.....is massive. Absolute massive...so go easy on yourself at all times...5/

But also know this particularly if things are a struggle with your students - gradually changing and improving in small increments in teaching can add up to a lot...6/

Or as Josh Kim put it ‘If the goal is to advance student learning, then the best method we have is to continuously make small but measurable advances that will ultimately result in big leaps’ small changes can lead to positive changes, so don’t despair things can turn around End/