A few weeks ago I attended a session on personalised learning - with me was one of my eLearning colleagues.
I picked up a number of tips to add to my lesson plans (this September I will be teaching a Maths evening class - it will be nice to do some active teaching again) and at the end of the session told my colleague "Oh that was a really good session".
To my surprise he said no, not really there wasn't much new or innovative. At which point I considered the session from an eLearning perspective and yes he was right we didnt learn that much regarding eLearning. It was only that I was looking for ideas for my face to face teaching that made it useful for me. If I had attended a few weeks before when I wasn't planning on teaching next term then I probably would have come to the same conclusion as him.
So what do I learn from this? Should it be that a lesson will only be seen a valuable to students if it meets a need that they have.
Also I now need to record sessions that I attend for CPD (Continuing Professional Development). I was already doing this on this blog, however I might have to switch to the tool issued by the Institute for Learning as this is what teachers are required to use (and as always I should be setting an example to less eDvanced staff).
One thing I will be interested in is how easy it is to make the blogs in the "Reflect" tool available to a wider audience. For example this blog is pretty much public (although not read by many people
) and it appears pretty close to the top of the page when you google my name. I really dont want to maintain 2 seperate blogs so will also be looking at the tools for RSSing one into the other.
Keywords: CPD, Personalised learning
