This page provides an overview of my activities as part of the e-Learning Community Co-ordinators project, a professional development initiative at Unitec Institute of Technology.
12 May 2010
Met with the Department of Education post-graduate programmes team to identify elearning needs and professional development strategies.
23 June 2010
Facilitated a 1.5 hour face to face Intro to Moodle workshop in computer lab with post-graduate teaching team.
5 August 2010
Facilitated a 2 hour face to face seminar for Department of Education staff on Social constructivism and Moodle.
10 October 2010
Facilitated a 1 hour face to face discussion with post-graduate teaching team on Planning for 2001.
February 2011
We now have a simple Moodle template that is easily re-usable and customisable. All new courses in the post-graduate area will use this template as a starting-point.
Lecturers will be encouraged to consider external tools such as wikis, blogs and social network tools to complement the resources and activities within Moodle. For most lecturers, Moodle is a substantial first step and the incorporation of external tools is likely to be appropriate from 2012.
Metacourse structure
In a series of planning meetings we have developed a structure of meta-courses to avoid unnecessary duplication of resources and activities across individual courses, and to encourage interaction between participants in all courses in a programme. Many courses will have two meta-courses.
Ongoing
- One to one support for staff on e-learning, including:
- planning and design of e-learning activities and resources
- using Moodle to support learning community approaches
- using blogging software for learner-generated content and reflective assessment
- Online support through Moodle presence.
- Distributing copies of useful resources: eg Joyce Seitzinger’s Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers
- Liaising with TPA and other Unitec e-learning advisors re e-learning development
- Keeping staff up to date with Unitec e-learning developments via meetings and Moodle presence
- Developing a Moodle template for new post-graduate Education courses
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