A New Start

Started the re-validated 'Teaching and Learning Support in Higher Education' course last night. Looks like it is much more structured than the last one, which will help me plan what time I put into it.

It's 150 hours learning time over the whole year, of which 16 hours will be face to face over the first module. Linda seemed to think that I'd need to find a couple of hours per week to interact with the course materials and the rest of the group online, and then extra time to work on the assignments.

The group look diverse enough to allow some interesting discussions on various issues but it felt like a quite gentle group, so that the discussions might be more constructive than when there are people just there to argue.

I'm going to find it interesting seeing their views on the use of technology. I already got the feeling that many of them struggle with it, possibly showing that the use of technology in teaching and learning has expanded before the technology is user-freindly enough for most people to have developed the skills to use it.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to completing this course. I'm in a much better possition to do that than when I started 2 years ago.