Third meeting of the Steering Group

We held our third Steering Group meeting on 22^nd January, with John Fielden, our HEA consultant also present.

Since the last meeting, we have collected more data through sending out questionnaires to all School Directors of Teaching and Learning and School Teaching and Learning Co-ordinators. We received a good response to these and the data generated provides us with a very informative picture of what is happening (or not happening) at School level with regard to different aspects of e-learning, and what the view ‘closer to the ground’ is. Part of the information gathered has fed into the draft IRD, but the results will be of use to us beyond the IRD.

The IRD has been drafted and a response to section D outlined. The meeting was a chance for the Steering Group to work through the drafts of sections B, C and D and comment on the content. On the whole, we were in agreement with the drafts. There were several suggestions for what else could be included. As usual, many interesting points arose and were debated about our approach to e-learning, how we’ve got to where we are now and where we should be going next. Will the way we’ve done things until now sustain us into the future or is it time to rethink how we approach e-learning? All of which then fed into a discussion of the Pathfinder Project.