'Authenticity, Creative Practices and Community in Online Teaching and Learning'

This presentation reflects upon the value of authentic educational practices that emerge both intentional and unintentionally in teaching and learning online; the transformative value students and teachers can find in distance learning and teaching relationships, creative practices used to encourage resident-style behaviour in a Higher Education context (White and Le Cornu, 2011), where students assess learning platforms to be present to each other in a shared learning journey. Using personal experience, student voice and literature the authors also reflect upon the notion that the curriculum is sticky (Orr and Shreeve,2017) and that it becomes increasingly so when fluid global learning communities develop