This year
two major items will impact on my workload and work direction.
Firstly,
the merger of CPIT and Aoraki Polytechnic to form a new institute is now in
progress. This raises issues of support for staff situated away from
Christchurch city. Due to the distributed nature of our campus, there is a need
to support learners who will be geographically dispersed. There has been an
emphasis on ‘flexible delivery’ to date but the merger will mean flexibility of
access becomes an important implementation goal.
Secondly,
we have at least 2 new educational developers starting with us this year, with
possibility of 2 more. The arrival of this cohort of educational developers, brings
us up to former strength. The newbies come from either the higher education or
the formal education (secondary) sector. Their challenge will be to come to an
understanding of our diverse portfolio relatively quickly. The outcomes of TRoQ/ MRoQ mean we have substantial work to do. The merger will challenge us, with
our mostly f2f delivery modes, to prepare teaching teams for shifting to
provide more flexible forms of learning.
On the
technology-enhanced learning front, a major project will be to complete pilotsof Onenote Classroom Notebook with several courses. We need to test the
viability of this platform for deployment into specialised discipline
areas, each with specific pedagogical goals.
Work with
tablets continue as several teams supported over the last 3 years have now
adopted BYOD or have managed to purchase class sets of tablets.
Dissemination
continues with several journal articles in various states of draft, close to
submission, peer review and tidying up for publication. There is a joint book
chapter to coordinate and write and discussions for an edited book to see to
fruition.
So, looking
forward to a busy year with new challenges and continuing work.
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