Hi Dominic,
I am involved in up-skilling staff at Huddersfield in all aspects of Learning Technologies
We have found a mixture of techniques to be effective.
We run a series of standard staff development course, but have supported these with byte sizes screencasts hosted on our own streaming service rather than written material. We have found the screencasts more effective and engaging. They allow self paced reflection and skills refreshment. There are a whole raft of academic papers that support the pedagogical use of multimedia and screencasts. The down side is that quality screencasts are time consuming to produce. The up side is that on occasion, the screencasts stand alone as a training resource, negating the need for academics to attend the face to face delivery sessions.
We also run a series of lunch time sessions titled "Learning Bytes" -the free tea and coffee is a must at these. We have aimed these at solving particular pedagogical issues, and always place the pedagogy ahead of the technology. These have been very successful. Past titles have included
"How can I mark more efficiently and give feedback to students more quickly?"
"How can I connect better with students and communicate more efficiently with them?"
We invited academics to present at these and share best practice, but ensure that we have the technical expertise there as well.
Thirdly, we have developed an online resource (http://ipark.hud.ac.uk/) where we can centrally locate all Learning Technology resources. We have made sure that the site is so much more than simple training resources, and have incorporated academic papers, best practice guides and research projects.
Hope this is of some help to you.
Kindest regards
Andy
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dominic Gore
Sent: 20 January 2011 14:39
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Subject: BB9.1 Training materials for staff
Hi All,
Happy New Year to everyone. I was wondering (and this may sound a little cheeky), but if anyone would be willing to share any of their thoughts and ideas around training materials they have produced in up-skilling their staff in Bb9.1. I am in the process of re-evaluating our staff training materials at UCB, and as such i feel that we could do with a complete overhaul of how and what we train the staff in with regards to Blackboard.
If anyone is willing to share their experiences and offer any useful information or guides they have used or currently use, I would be most grateful.
many thanks
Dominic
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