UELconnect Blog

The UELconnect 1 year on event earlier this week had a number of interesting presentations throughout the day. It was interesting to hear the new VC (Patrick McGhee) talk about his interests in technology and the use of lecture capture technology. Interest in the use of such tools is growing and having the appropriate infrastructure to support this interest is very much needed.

One thing that occurred to me during the day was how much I learnt from the presentations I saw. It was really useful to have academics from across the university giving their views on different projects we have undertaken. What I think is an interesting and crucial challenge for us is to capture and disseminate this good practice and innovative approaches throughout the university. Given the fact I work in the e-learning team and I didn’t know about a number of the projects presented on, I wonder how those out in the schools and services have any idea what is happening in other schools.

In the recently released JISC Portfolio for Senior Managers one of the key ways noted for enhancing the student and staff experience was ‘Ensure that best practice and innovation is being shared across your institution rather than being confined to pockets of excellence’. I think this is going to be an interesting, but crucial challenge for us.