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fleapalmer posted an update in the group Enthusing staff to engage with TEL 11 years ago

Wholeheartedly agree about the value of peer to peer TEL enthusing and have just been reading JISC InfKit: Supporting Staff -http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/digital-literacies/practice/supporting-staff/ and ‘Online learning, faculty development and academic freedom’ – http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/05/05/online-learning-faculty-development-and-academic-freedom/

Made me ponder…

Who runs TEL workshops? By that I mean is there collaboration between Learning Technologists, Educational Developers, Learning Developers, Librarians, IT staff, Careers Advisers, etc…? In reference to Tony’s second point, it’s got me wondering whether we could be a bit more ‘joined up’ in our delivery?..
- Gary Vear replied 11 years ago
  
  Hi Flea
  
  Looking forward to reading these when I get chance.
  
  Just quickly regarding your question on collaboration. My previous institution had a good structure when it came to CPD sessions. After continuous negative feedback regarding outside companies delivering CPD, the college put out a survey asking any members of staff if they would be interesting in delivering CPD sessions on a variety of topics.
  
  This allowed all staff with a specialism/expertise/knowledge of a particular subject to be able to share this with the other faculties. It also allowed staff to mix and generate new respect for each other. So I believe from experience that ‘joined up’ delivery is worthwhile to pursue.
  - Julie Voce replied 11 years ago
    
    Hi Flea,
    
    Here at Imperial TEL workshops are run by a central Educational Development Unit and by local Learning Technologists. We tried to bring everyone together to be more joined up with VLE training when we rolled out Blackboard Learn, but people just wanted to do their own thing so we have central and faculty-based sessions. This can make it difficult for us in the central ICT team as we don’t know what level of training/expertise staff have when we are dealing with their Blackboard issues.
    
    When it comes to sharing of practice, there seems to be a belief that our academics require everything tailored to their specific discipline needs and I get the impression academics don’t want to look at use cases in other disciplines as it’s not directly relevant to them.
    - fleapalmer replied 11 years ago
      
      Thanks for this Julie – sorry I’ve taken so long to respond!
      
      We’re just rolling out Moodle and, like you, have a mixture of centrally-provided and faculty-focussed training teams. These consist of Learning Technologists, Librarians and Digital Skills Developers. I’m based in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities for 3 days a week and, as time to engage is such a concern, they are definitely interested in (short) workshops that will apply directly to their area!