After “Ask the Experts: Validation Process” online event things have gone quiet on the community site. We have had a discussion on how to engage the members and encourage them to interact with each other, create groups, make friends, and start a discussion. We have asked members to create their own blogs on the site or to link their existing blogs to it.
This followed with another informal meeting on Monday 6th Oct. with Helen Walmsley (e-learning models co-ordinator) who approved our work so far on the community and she went through the best way to cultivate the community of practice. This helped us to rethink how we could generate more interest from our members. We thought of minimising our emails to one each week which will summarise the activities for the previous week and inform the members of the agenda for the forthcoming week so members will get into a rhythm of the community. We agreed to update the image on our main page to match our weekly discussion accordingly.
I met Chris Gray On Tuesday 7th Oct. and discussed the activity issue and decided on breaking down the validation process into logic phases by organising weekly- based discussions so members will focus on one aspect at a time. He suggested to start a market research topic. This will involve consulting the marketing team to act as an expert on this discussion forum. The following day I had a meeting with Ian Jones from Marketing who explained that tutors faculty carry out the research by themselves. However he will reply to tutors’ queries by giving them some guidance and advice in the next week discussion.
On Thursday we met a tutor from the FCET faculty who had been through the market research stage for her new module and she provided us with an excellent business case (P.S. the details of this meeting will be published in the next blog).
We organised face to face events for the next coming weeks in Stoke and Stafford Campuses, to briefly introduce the project and demo the community to the members and answer any queries.
This followed with another informal meeting on Monday 6th Oct. with Helen Walmsley (e-learning models co-ordinator) who approved our work so far on the community and she went through the best way to cultivate the community of practice. This helped us to rethink how we could generate more interest from our members. We thought of minimising our emails to one each week which will summarise the activities for the previous week and inform the members of the agenda for the forthcoming week so members will get into a rhythm of the community. We agreed to update the image on our main page to match our weekly discussion accordingly.
I met Chris Gray On Tuesday 7th Oct. and discussed the activity issue and decided on breaking down the validation process into logic phases by organising weekly- based discussions so members will focus on one aspect at a time. He suggested to start a market research topic. This will involve consulting the marketing team to act as an expert on this discussion forum. The following day I had a meeting with Ian Jones from Marketing who explained that tutors faculty carry out the research by themselves. However he will reply to tutors’ queries by giving them some guidance and advice in the next week discussion.
On Thursday we met a tutor from the FCET faculty who had been through the market research stage for her new module and she provided us with an excellent business case (P.S. the details of this meeting will be published in the next blog).
We organised face to face events for the next coming weeks in Stoke and Stafford Campuses, to briefly introduce the project and demo the community to the members and answer any queries.
