One thing I did whenever I managed to get any e-learning into the training schedule was to put up lots of posters advertising what would be going on… I took the approach of ‘selling’ what was on offer, despite the college’s approach to staff training being “you will go to whatever sessions we tell you to go to.” So I’d stick up posters explaining what I’d be covering, and – me being me – usually with a quirky title or image to catch the eye.

I still recall a member of the PE department carefully altering posters that read “Moodle with Megan” to “Shmoodle with Megan” – however he ran away when I advanced on him during his training session… J

Hugs from Megan

From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Mill
Sent: 16 August 2010 15:06
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VLES] e-learning Training Provision

Hi Helen,

Thanks for sharing your experience - I'm just involved with setting up a new elearning service in the College of Arts and Law here at Birmingham and it looks like you've pipped us to the post - exactly what we've been planning! I'm chuffed actually, cos it makes me think i'm on the right lines :-)

We're still looking at advertising/marketing, so I'll give you a shout when we've put a plan together...

Running much of what we do around a blog and a wiki (thus far): http://elearncal.wordpress.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/elearncalwiki/

Cheers, Bill :-)

Bill Miller

Senior e-Learning Consultant
College of Arts and Law
440 Arts Building

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Davies Helen.M. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi all,

Here at Swansea, we are looking at reviewing our e-learning training sessions for the coming academic year. Historically, we offer sessions specifically on our VLE (Blackboard) and also on a wide variety of external tools/ content types (eg blogs, wikis, podcasts, screencasts etc).

We have found that take up is usually fairly good for the new areas (twitter was one of the highlights this year), but are dwindling for others. Some areas have very little take-up, yet we think they could be important, for instance Social Bookmarking (using Delicious).

The format that we run is a one hour training session (different times, different days) followed by an optional hour if they want to stay and play with the tools and/or ask questions. We have a website with an events calendar that we advertise on, with an RSS Feed that links into Blackboard, as well as an all-staff email.

What I'd like to ask is, what format(s) do you run your training sessions in, how do you advertise and promote them, and how successful are they (rough % take up)?

Many thanks in advance for this information - please feel free to reply on or off list.

Regards

Helen Davies
Swansea University
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