A healthy discussion took place about training and the development of new training materials. The following points were raised:
- Develop different types of training materials
- “beyond pdf” – screencasts, a series of on-line lessons
- material to support migrated courses and also courses built from scratch
- 15 minute guides
- A collaboration approach to creating training materials
- institutional agreement re IPR/ownership and sharing of materials
- creative commons for openess?
- central repository with version control- hosted by RSC?
- related best practice materials and case studies
- Student input – possibility of the creation of content by students and their assitance during training events
- Should we be developing digital literacy materials and programmes?
- more generic materials, less specific to a VLE
- less updating of materials when new versions of VLE come on-line
- staff are educated in digital literacy rather than being trained in a particular piece of software – better approach?
- Can we change the free Blackboard training materials and make them freely available? – Representatives from Blackboard indicated that they were willing to discuss a proposal on this matter.
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Steven Bruce & Raymond Moir