Hi Everyone! Greetings from Cranford, NJ, USA.My name is Beth Ritter-Guth, and I am the Director of Instructional Design at Union County College. We are a two-year public institution. Prior to my role here, I was a tenured professor in English at a col…

Virginia, I think that you make a crucial point there about not having to be technical to work with technology and I know how the use of technical language can be a barrier to understanding. In my own job I try to keep technical terms to an absolute mi…

Hello, my name is Lesly Huxley. I have two roles: Director of IT Services
R&D group at the University of Bristol (formerly the Institute for Learning
& Research Technology) and Director, Networks and Organisation Development
for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

In the latter capacity I am programme director for the Innovation and
Transformation Fund (joint LFHE/Hefce) which has provided support to ALT to
establish this MOOC. This is my first MOOC experience, and despite my other
role, I have limited TEL experience as my work focuses particularly on
technologies to support research. I have taught at Masters level […]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!My mail was so full that I ran out of credit on my wifi dongle!–Maria Costantino (HPL/sessional lecturer, Kingston University and UCreative @Epsom)

My experience with TEL had been reasonably limited up until recently when I started work as a Research Tutor in 2011 at the University of Portsmouth. I now support students both on campus and at a distance using a range of methods, and I am keen to kno…

Hello everyone,Many thanks to those of you who have got the ball rolling with your introductions, big questions and experiences. Thanks especially to Doug Holton for the useful practical advice that seems to have gone down well – just the kind of peer …

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Hi, Im Stephen Brown, Professor of Learning Technologies at De Montfort University, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Distance Education at the University of London, former president of ALT, ex-Head of Distance Learning in BT, ex-OU tutor, etc. etc. al…

Hi,I am Laura Mcloughlin, I teach Italian at the National University of Ireland, Galway.I have been using technology in my teaching for a number of years, concentrating lately on subtitling software for second language acquisition and translation memor…

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Experiences with TEL include studying on an online module while undertaking a PGDip in Library & Information Management, which was delivered on the WebCT Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). This was a while ago and I seem to recall feeling quite anxious about posting comments, views etc that others could read in terms of a) If others disagree, comments might be quite harsh, b) Fear of getting something wrong and c) Seriously bad spelling 🙂 In terms of how the technology made me act, if I had to sum it up in a couple of words I’d say ‘with caution […]