We organised an online event on Technology Supported Learning and Validation on Thursday, 11th December which consisted of two presentations. The first one was led by Glynn Skerratt, principal lecturer from Faculty of Sciences, who has been involved with designing for distance learning with off-campus students for many years. The second one was presented by Barry Wardle & Keith Booles, senior lecturers from Faculty of Health who talked about their experiences using podcasting (audio files) to support enquiry based learning for pre-registration nursing degree and diploma students.
We made the presentations available in a forum on the main page in Ning social network in .wmv and .mp3 format. The idea was to enable the community members to view these presentation prior to the event and note questions so they can ask the presenters on the event day
Glynn, Barry and Keith were available online from 2pm to 4pm on Thursday 11th December to answer members questions in the forum. We provided physical space, both at Stafford and Stoke, so members could get help when they had problems accessing the presentations or the forum on that day. The event is followed by interesting and valuable threads of questions from academics.
