The course has started...

Waht is this all about?

I've been a 'Learning Technologist' here at Oxford Brookes University for 9 months; I've worked in Learning Technology (LT) for a few establishments, and Brookes is by far the most forward-looking.

Technically, LT at Brookes is largely based on the use of a virtual learning environment, or VLE. We use WebCT. WebCT is supported by the Media Workshop, of which I'm a member; however, I'm not present in the Media Workshop physically: I'm based at the Harcourt Hill Campus, a former teacher training college, which now houses the Education department of Brookes.

In additon to the Media Workshop, another department at Brookes, the Oxford Centre for Staff Learning and Development (OCSLD), is heavily involved in e-learning, although their focus is more on the pedagogy behind e-learning. It's OCSLD who are running this course, which I thought I'd better do, as I have no doubt there'll be numerous gems of useful information that I can pass on to my colleagues at Harcourt. I anticipate that the course will be most interesting.

Well, this is the start, and we've been asked to keep a learning log - and it's been suggested that we might use blogging as a means to do this....so here we are.

Jim