Best practices for online learning: experiences from the WAT Master's programme

Learning and evaluation in WAT programme have a strong emphasis in groupwork, peer learning and interaction between students and teachers. To continue meeting the learning goals of the master’s programme courses while supporting the well-being of students, it was important to maintain the interactive teaching methods in the rapid transition to online learning in 2020-21 (due to COVID-19 pandemic). The best practices for online learning presented below are based on observations and experiences from ten WAT courses in spring 2021, and collected through course assistant’s work in the courses, student feedback and discussions with teachers.