This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Introduction and important question

Hello, my name's Keith Tellum and I'm the TEL Manager at Leeds City College. We're predominantly FE, but have quite a large HE provision as we also include Leeds College of Music.

My introduction to TEL (ILT in those days) was creating courses and learning materials on the newly introduced Blackboard VLE back in 2000/2001. We spent quite a bit of time on what the differences might be between reading on paper and on screen, and tried to add interactivity and short quizzes/questions to stop people skipping content. At the time, TEL seemed to be about increasing staff IT skills [...]