Piloting the Concurrent Teaching of a Graduate Programme at Multiple Sites and its Value to The University of the West Indies

This article reports on the benefits of a pilot at the University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Education which entailed the teaching of a Graduate Diploma in Education through The UWI’s Single Virtual University Space (SVUS) that used the Zoom platform to host online classes. It facilitated concurrent delivery of courses to students at a number of sites and countries. The SVUS was an initiative of The UWI to serve, better, the needs of communities where students may not be able to access a programme delivered at a University campus. The lessons learned from the pilot informed several subsequent UWI initiatives, including the work of the Office for Online Learning which is responsible, inter alia, for expanding the concurrent delivery of the University’s programmes and courses to multiple sites. The lessons learned may also be of value to other institutions seeking to deliver programmes to multiple sites through video streaming.