Idea of the day – connect with Connect

If our leading edge with distance education is no longer current (providing students with printed material that was all nicely packaged), how about we encourage lecturers to actually give weekly lecturers to distance students. They could use Adobe Connect and run them how we run our “workshops on demand” (part of the StudyUp series).  Half hour sessions work really well. If they couldn’t rejig they’re lectures (if there wasn’t enough time/resources etc) they could consider at least running ½ hour tutorials.

I think one of the potential pitfalls of technology is that technology replaces actual contact, and we know that students benefit from actual contact with lecturers. However, you can easily use cheap and available technology to make contact – connect with Connect, perfect!