I’d agree with Sarah that students/learners can sometimes be wary of posting to online discussions through fear of public exposure, more so if you experience dyslexia or are using a second language. Some tutors here at Napier in Edinburgh use the anony…

Hi, I have worked in FE for the past 11 years with a break of 2 yrs when I taught in a school. I have taught HE at University and within the FE Context and feel that anything we learn here will be applicable to FE. I decided to get involved with ocTEL …

I have been an online course developer at the University of Portsmouth since 2007. I have worked in three of the four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. For the last two years I have been working on Education and Criminal Justice…

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Hello, I’m Barbara Wilford; I work at Teesside University in the School of Health and Social care as the E learning Coordinator and lecturer in the research methods team. I’m also one of the University Teaching Fellows and have a learning and teaching leadership role across the University.

My profession background is in the field of Diagnostic Radiography and it was through this route I embarked on my HE career in 1999. How naïve I was then, wondering when shown into my office, what I might need a computer for! It was probably a couple of years later, following an […]

Question :Reflecting on your own work experience and ambitions for developing your teaching, what is the most important question about TEL for you?What do other practitioners find most effective in this field, why, and is there any research to back it …

HelloI’m Sarla Gandhi and I teach a variety of subjects to different health professions in the School of Health in the University of Central Lancashire. My professional background is critical care nursing.I love technology, and feel that we should be a…

Hello AllI’m Tracey Yeadon-Lee from the University of Huddersfield, where I’m a senior lecturer in Sociology. My experience of using technology in my teaching is fairly basic and I hope that I will learn more from being on this course. At present I use…

Hi,My previous, present and future experiences with TELAs a student of French as part of my first degree, I made use of CALL labs for a variety of language learning activities: these were my first real experiences of using technology to assist learning…

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)