Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning<\/a>. While I was still employed locally as a Learning Technologist, my work was very different during that time, not just due to the Covid crisis. The project team worked collaboratively on resources, webinars, chapters, etc. and at the university, I worked on an inclusive learning project and started to teach the Learning Technologies module in our PgDip in CELT. It’s a bit deflating to finish a wonderfully collaborative project and return to your day job, even though I’ve been allowed to continue my teaching and work on inclusion and UDL. I knew I wanted to do some type of CPD soon to reorient, and re-motivate, myself. I’ve always wanted to do my Ph.D., and if I hadn’t been in so many precarious contracts with no financial ability to pursue it, I would have done it long ago. I respect the people and work in Edinburgh so much that I thought this course might help me start to reflect on my career, reframe some things, and maybe decide on a topic. I remain cautiously optimistic!<\/p>\nJust before Christmas, I was told I was leading our LT team on the university’s migration from Blackboard to Canvas. We have a pilot this semester and will move fully in September. While I’m comfortable enough installing and testing multiple LTIs and testing admin settings, I personally care much more deeply about course design, accessibility, thinking critically, and values. I can do the work, but it’s not my passion. I also know it’s going to take up so much time, but that gives me more motivation to focus on this course as I’ll have so little of the critical aspect of ed tech present in my own work. I’m not sure I’m the best person to ask to lead this given my critical lens. In my own teaching, I ask our staff to investigate who owns ed tech companies, what are the values\/politics associated with them,\u00a0 what data is gathered, etc.<\/p>\n
Anyway, apologies for rambling a bit, but I felt it important to outline where I’m at in my own work. I’m looking forward to the course, and I hope to keep up as best I can. I think it will help to energise me, and some of my best learning\/teaching experiences have been online\/asynchronous, so there’s that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello there! I haven’t been assigned a blog tutor yet, so apologies for not directly addressing anyone in this post! I’m Kate, and I’ve been a Learning Technologist at University of Galway for the last seven and a half years. From 2019 – 2022, I was the university lead on a national project through the … <\/p>\n
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