Supporting online teaching and smarter working through a targeted professional development programme

A presentation from the E-Learning in Health Conference 2011.

This presentation focuses on developing online teaching capability particularly:

• understanding academic staff needs;
• evaluating a staff development programme;
• upskilling academic staff in online teaching;
• contribution of development resources to "smarter" working.

The project presented arose from evidence that staff in a school of nursing and midwifery have a range of competence and confidence in e-learning skills including VLE use content development and collaborative tools. The starting-point was that in resource-constrained environments upskilling academic staff is an effective use of learning technology / e-learning support resources.