Peter
I would be really interested in participating in the workshop and investigating any
other possible areas of collaboration.
As I mentioned at ALT-C I was awaiting funding for a similar project, which has
just been confirmed. The project is being funded by SHEFC as part of its C&IT
programme under the staff development strand. (http://www.scotcit.ac.uk).
The abstract of the project is below. The project is funded for 18 months from Jan
2000 until July 2001. The project team is essentially me, but the first part of
the project is to run a workshop, with similar aims and objectives to yours. Our
timescale is shorter and we plan to hold the workshop in March/April. A possible
way forward is for us to bring the output of our workshop to yours in June. If you
would like ot see the full project proposal or would like further details about our
workshop please let me know.
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The Centre for Open and Distance Learning, The Robert Gordon University and the
Learning Technology Centre, Heriot-Watt University
Proposal to the SHEFC Communications and Information Technology (C&IT) Programme:
funding for staff development
Developing and Supporting On-line Tutors:
>From Process to A Global Knowledge Pool
Summary
The success of the Scottish information technology investment depends on teachers
being effective facilitators and motivators of their students' on-line learning.
The aim of this proposal is to establish a process, guidelines and knowledge pool
of resources that will enable Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and staff to map
the long established ‘tutoring model’ to the world of on-line education.
Establishing such a resource will ensure that Scottish HEIs are able to provide
long term support and development for their staff in the skills and technology
required to provide quality on-line tutoring.
With few exceptions, Higher Education in the United Kingdom has only limited
experience of providing on-line tutoring support on a large scale. A considerable
amount can be learnt from consulting with experts from institutions in Canada, New
Zealand, Australia and Scandinavia. This project will take a global approach for
two reasons. First, to ensure that the project team avoids reinventing the wheel
and exploits current good practice that already exists. Second, to ensure that any
process or resources developed will prepare staff in Scottish HEIs to act as tutors
in the growing and competitive global education economy. The main outcomes from the
project will be:
1. A set of guidelines to support institutions and staff in migrating from the
existing tutoring models operating within their institution, to an appropriate
on-line counterpart.
2. Guidelines on developing an effective staff development strategy to meet the
institution's teaching & learning aims and planned service levels.
3. A knowledge pool of resources, derived from the above activities, to support
institutions and staff in implementing the process and following good practice.
The project is a partnership between The Centre for Open and Distance Learning at
The Robert Gordon University and the Learning Technology Centre at Heriot-Watt
University. The project also has the support of the SHEFC ‘Virtual Learning Space’
consortium, which is a partnership of Aberdeen University, Aberdeen College and The
Robert Gordon University.
Regards
Carol Higgison
"Goodyear, Peter" wrote:
> The purpose of this note is twofold:
>
> 1. Advance notice of a workshop (June 8th & 9th 2000, Lake District, UK) on the
> topic of teaching/tutoring in on-line environments.
>
> 2. An invitation to contact me if you are interested in this area - whether or
> not you'd be able to participate in the workshop itself.
>
> This workshop is being organised under the auspices of IBSTPI (The
> International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction -
> http://www.ibstpi.org/) and Lancaster University's JISC-funded project on
> Network Learning in Higher Education - http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/jisc/)
>
> The workshop is concerned with understanding how (good) on-line teachers do
> what they do. Part of the agenda for the workshop will be the creation of some
> draft competence frameworks and statements that may subsequently be used in the
> design of training for on-line teachers/tutors, or in certification testing or
> recruitment processes. Another part of the agenda is to construct a broader
> understanding of teaching in on-line environments, looking particularly at the
> actions, goals, knowledge and beliefs of more and less experienced on-line
> teachers.
>
> The audience for the workshop will be people with a strong interest in on-line
> teaching - particularly where the learners are adults (e.g. in university
> teaching, training/staff development in public sector organisations, networked
> learning in corporations, etc). We aim to get a good mix of people with
> research interests in this area and people who have professional experience of,
> or responsibility for, recruiting or managing on-line teachers.
>
> There is strong interest in this area among some of the larger players in the
> networked learning field (e.g. among technology providers like Microsoft and
> Lotus/IBM and in 'corporate/virtual universities' like Motorola U, British
> Aerospace, etc).
>
> Please email me for further information and to give me some idea of your
> interest in/experience of this area.
>
> Peter Goodyear
>
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> Peter Goodyear
> Professor of Educational Research
> Editor, Instructional Science
> CSALT, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University
> Lancaster LA1 4YL, England
> Tel: +44 (0)1524 594373 Fax: +44 (0)1524 592914
> CSALT: http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/csalt/
> Instructional Science: http://www.wkap.nl/journals/instructional_science
>
>
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Carol Higgison TALiSMAN Co-ordinator
ICBL, Heriot-Watt University, Tel 0131 451 3289
Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS Fax 0131 451 3283
http://www.talisman.hw.ac.uk
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