Where do I Want to Get To?
I enjoy working for North Island College and I like living in the Comox Valley. However, I’d also like to travel and experience living elsewhere. With on-line teaching skills, I would have opportunities to teach North Island College courses from any location. I would also make myself eligible to teach for other organizations internationally. Those are some of my personal and professional motivations. I hope to gain a solid understanding of on-line and blended and technology-enhanced pedagogy and teaching and learning theory in order to inform my future course design, planning and delivery. I would like to become very confident and competent in many eLearning platforms and tools. The instructors in OLTD seem to be comfortable switching and moving among several interfaces for teaching and learning – Collaborate, Moodle, MOOCS, Skype, to name a few. I’d like to gain that comfort level with using these options. I also want to gain enough practice in order to be a resource to my colleagues at North Island College. Guided practice is what I need, though, and so I am expecting that this program will give me plenty of that.
I enjoy working for North Island College and I like living in the Comox Valley. However, I’d also like to travel and experience living elsewhere. With on-line teaching skills, I would have opportunities to teach North Island College courses from any location. I would also make myself eligible to teach for other organizations internationally. Those are some of my personal and professional motivations. I hope to gain a solid understanding of on-line and blended and technology-enhanced pedagogy and teaching and learning theory in order to inform my future course design, planning and delivery. I would like to become very confident and competent in many eLearning platforms and tools. The instructors in OLTD seem to be comfortable switching and moving among several interfaces for teaching and learning – Collaborate, Moodle, MOOCS, Skype, to name a few. I’d like to gain that comfort level with using these options. I also want to gain enough practice in order to be a resource to my colleagues at North Island College. Guided practice is what I need, though, and so I am expecting that this program will give me plenty of that.