Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Learner centred e-learning

Working in an institution gave me foundations!

In a past life, (for 28 years) I worked in the disability field, more specifically, with people with intellectual disability and autism.  In the late 1970’s I left school in the country, arrived in Melbourne and began work in at Kingsbury Training Centre, a new ‘forward thinking’ institution for [...]

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Do we deliver what we say we will?

Marketing and recruitment campaigns run hot in this competitive world. Do we deliver to our students what we say we will or are they left feeling disappointed with their expectations unfulfilled?
Just recently, I made a decision which seemed exciting at the time, but unfortunately things didn’t work out as I expected. It has got me [...]

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Developing creative Elearning material

At school I was often considered odd!
Well maybe I was/am…? I long suspected that in my childhood, certain abilities were seen as being more valuable than others for reasons that didn’t make sense. Thankfully, my mother understood my strange creative personality, as did the occasional teacher, although most didn’t! How do we develop our creativity [...]