The Learning Development Team (LDT) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is currently involved with supporting staff as they redesign modules for the new Keele Honours. Incorporating study skills into these modules is an important factor and the LDT wanted somewhere to be able to share existing resources with academic staff. The hope is that this will inspire staff, as well as encourage sharing and repurposing of objects.
Using the workflow provided, I have started adding resources with some basic metadata, and all including the tag “Faculty First” – the name of the project. This will allow staff to search for this tag and find all the material relating to first year skills in HumSS. Adding materials has been straight forward and allows instant access via the WebCT powerlink. The main problem I’ve faced is that the search function of the powerlink isn’t working as expected. Users cannot do a Google type search at the moment as only phrase searching is working. Intrallect are aware of this problem and are working to resolve the issue. As soon as this is sorted, I’ll be able to send out instructions to academic staff so they can view the materials and provide feedback to me on how useful they find this exercise.
Posted by Georgina Spencer @ Keele Pathfinder Team |
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