Introduction and BIG questions

[RachelHeathersh]

Hi Shandell,

I am very interested to read your post, I am also a lecturer in a school of nursing and midwifery at University Campus Suffolk in England. I am part of a course team who deliver the Preparation for Mentorship course for our registered practitioners who support and assess pre-registration nursing and midwifery students. I also am relatively new to TEL but want to utilise this as part of the learning experience particularly as most of our students are also employed and have competing demands so the need to be flexible and responsive to their needs is particularly important.

We have a very supportive educational technologist team at UCS and I am often linking with them. Your BIG question resonates with me but in addition to this I want to discover how to engage my busy collegues in this too. I also lead a Masters programme in Leadership and Service Innovation and am very interested in Design Science but haven’t had the chance to pursue this yet!

It’s good to ‘virtually’ meet you

Kind regards

Rachel

[eennever]

Hi Shandell

 

Good to see you in here. I am still finding my way around the MOOC a bit… I am gong to post re my big question soon.  Hello to Rachel too. I am with the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Tasmania based in Hobart and talk to Shandell up in Launceston a bit (they are about 200km apart). I am the Project Officer Teaching and Learning supporting (hopefully) staff like Shandell to explore TEL offerings. UTAS is looking at MOOCs as a public course “taster” option. I guess my biggest concern with some TEL is that it is sometimes introduced as “the next big thing” without being fit to purpose. As Shandell points put we have some rather large course numbers in internal units but UTAS is looking to attract over 10,000 into a new MOOC, while we still are trying to supprt people to use the new LMS Desire 2 Learn platform to its best advantage.

I guess I am not a “cutting edge” TEL user in many ways…but if you don’t try something you never learn. As far as motivating colleagues to use TEL it seems a common problem.

Look forward to catching up again in here.

Ellen

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