E-learning
Introducing 'Ms E-Mentor' - Rosie Miles
Introduction
Rosie Miles the Subject Centre's
E-learning consultant for 09/10
Wanting some ideas about how to develop online activities using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in English Studies?
Interested in seeing 'live' VLE use in HE English courses? Got some questions about what is or isn't working in terms of e-learning in your classes? Interested in what does or doesn't work for other colleagues in English in terms of their use of e-learning tools?
In the 2009–2010 academic year Rosie Miles, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton, will be acting as an E-Learning Consultant in conjunction with the English Subject Centre. In 2006–2007 Rosie was one of six E-Learning Advocates supported by the English Subject Centre, aiming to champion and promote the use of successful e-learning within English departments. In 2007–2008, Rosie continued a version of the role and between 2006–2008 developed a 'roving' brief for herself whereby she visited English departments and demonstrated her own 'live' VLE topics and how they were being used within English courses. She is also one of the authors (with Benjamin Colbert and Francis Wilson) of a forthcoming English Subject Centre Good Practice Guide exploring the design, moderation and assessment of online activities in English Studies (due for publication in 2009–2010).
Rosie has already begun a blog on her experiences as an e-teacher ‘a year in the life of e-learning in English’. Make sure you drop-by and catch up on her experiences and leave her some feedback!
In addition Rosie will be available, during the academic year 2009-10, to make a visit to your department to demonstrate using online VLE activities within English courses. The format of the visit is very much up to your requirements, but might form part of a themed departmental workshop/ staff meeting or a one-to-one with your departmental or faculty e-learning specialist. As there are only a limited number of visits possible within the busy academic year, we would welcome invitations as soon as possible. To contact Rosie to arrange a visit to your department please email R. Miles@wlv.ac.uk
Finally, we are working on an online conferencing facility to which English colleagues can bring queries, comments and discussion round e-learning issues within the subject. Watch for more information on the dates and times of these sessions shortly.
