The “If you only do one thing…” activity for week 0 is to write a short intro about myself, so here goes…
My name is Catherine Koppe and I am a training developer at the University of Edinburgh. I work in the Skills Development Team within Information Services (IS Skills). My job involves creating training materials and organising (& presenting) face-to-face training for staff and students at the university – at the moment mostly in EndNote, Collaborate, Moodle and Business Objects. IS Skills is currently developing more online materials, including Camtasia videos and Learn VLE courses. I arrived at this job after a PhD (in biology) and working in computing support, including support specifically for disabled students.
I haven’t participated in a MOOC before, so I am partly participating in ocTEL for the experience. But what about the other part? I’m hoping it will provide some answers to my Big Question, of course! The most important question about TEL for me at the moment is, simply, how can I use it to improve the online training materials that I create?
Training developer at the University of Edinburgh