Been a bit quiet on this blog – teaching and stuff – but am about to start a new online course so will try and keep up to date!

I’m looking forward to it…it’s run by NIACE and will hopefully enable me to better understand what it is to create an online course and also think about what it’s like to be an online participant. The new DTE(E)LLS course that I’m involved in is slowly getting there in terms of online delivery but we have a long way to go!

The students are all keeping blogs and I’m uploading links/resources through the College Student Portal but the discussion/forum side of things (among other things!) is lacking. As ever, time is the big restraint for both tutors and tutees – most have got full timetables and I’d worry that not enough would be able to take part in regular online discussions to make them worthwhile.

We still have a way to go in terms of shifting learning online – there is a lot of material to get through and lots of assignments to be written so I’m particularly interested in how some of the course’s GLH can be delivered online. Hope that the NIACE course which runs from Nov – Feb will give me a few ideas!