Block/residential workshops
Postgraduate courses often structure their teaching around mandatory or optional on-campus blocks or components, initially or subsequently supported by print, email, Blackboard, or other technologies.
These block/residential workshops occur at key points in the course, for example:
- to “kick-start” the teaching at the start of a semester;
- to consolidate learning towards the end of a semester; or
- to undertake practical activities not possible in distance mode.
The organisation of block/residential workshops, including booking rooms, is the responsibility of your department, so, if you are the departmental or distance learning administrator, it will usually be your responsibility for making arrangements. If you are an academic planning one of the block workshops, remember that you should work alongside your distance learning administrator to organise the event.