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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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Sorry my last post ended abruptly. Was going to say FreePint still has the odd good article or advice on some issues.

Look forward to catching up in here but have not used a MOOC before so it is all an adventure..

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Hi

 

I would like to join this group as well. I have a background in libraries but also have a research interest in health literacy. Information literacy is something I have to address practically every day of my working life these days. Like the post above Jim regarding dig lit options for discipline specific use as I work in health sciences and we are somewhat failing at the moment to keep our library “in the loop”. Our Clinical Librarian recently received funding to look into better library design and client connection for information literacy.

I have taught information literacy practices to adult education students over a Blackboard platform (WebCT Vista version) and am currently helping academic staff engage with Desire2Learn, Collaborate and cloud file transfer options. Would love some input from teh library and information world again. I used to really love FreePint in the UK as a virtual bar area to ask questions but it became more business oriented in the last decade (at least from where I sit).

 

Still worth a look if you are unfamiliar with it as many informtion professionals still gather there:

http://www.freepint.com/

 

The odd good article still

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