Hello all,
Like John Roscoe, I too would be very keen to see 'wonderful
examples of elearning and staff development websites' - if list members would like to send me their various recommendations, I'd be happy to produce a single meta list of sites for all list members. Arthur, Kate, what about getting the ball rolling?
Zoe Toft
School of Oriental and African Studies, and University College Dublin.
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From: John Roscoe <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:42:16 -0000
Subject: Re: Elearning and Staff Development Web Sites
Hi
In reply to Arthur Loughran's views I have two points to make.
The first is that I would like to have access to some of the 'wonderful
examples of elearning and staff development websites' he refers to but I
do not know where they are and how to get access.
Second is that my experience with encouraging colleagues to access
Blackboard resources is that they just do not do it however good they
are. It seems to me that we academics have certain freedom of choice
over what we do and when we do it and lots of things that we could do
get pushed back by things like preparing for and attending sessions with
students, marking student work and fulfilling our institutional
obligations. Things we might intend to do keep getting shuffled down the
priorities list and do not get done.
So a solution for my first point is that I would be very grateful for
some pointers to some, but not too many, excellent resources. For the
second point we need to build in some prioritisation and rewards to get
staff to engage with the resources and go back to them again to enable
them to gain benefit.
Exhortation and references to professional responsibilities and balanced
workloads do not get colleagues to engage.
Perhaps I am being too pessimistic so early in the New Year?
Regards
John Roscoe
Thames Valley University
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