Hi,
One of the points I raised at the recent Blackboard Users Conference in
Durham was the use that is made of our respective elearning resource
websites. There are some wonderful examples of elearning and staff
development websites which no doubt would be a great boon to academics
if they use them. They have been to me in my searches for "good ideas"
and thanks to all who have built them. However my gut feeling, to some
extent supported by a quick straw poll at Durham, is that academic staff
do not use these resources, many of which have taken a fair amount of
effort and cost to develop.
I feel that it is important to have these types of resource available
so that they can be used as and when required but it seems as though
many of us are working away, spending good time and money, developing
resources that appear to be almost superficial to our constituents.
There are many reasons for this seeming condition and I suspect the
main one is that academic staff have little "real time" available to
them for personal elearning development work. Is this an erronous
assumption? Are there examples of high utilisation of institutional
online elearning resources out there? Answers on an email to the group
would be appreciated.
Happy New year to one and all.
Arthur Loughran
University of Paisley.
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