The Project plan

Now that the dust has settled, the project plan is in for consideration, here is a synthesis of the main ideas. (Tried to do this last Fri but Blogger was offline for the afternoon.)

Several trainers in this region are in varying stages of entering the online delivery world of training and assessing. there is much that we do not know that others have already discovered. We can re-invent the wheel ourselves one at a time through trial and error or we could somehow use the existing knowledge.

This project is my attempt to reveal some of this information and organise it somehow into a handbook for those still to start the journey. Mainly to save the time researching in the wrong areas.

This"handbook" could end up having four main components:

• a "technical" guide to managing the server and website side of an Learning Management System, maybe in the form of "this is what I learned through trial and error."
• connecting with students online in the training arena
• asssessing online training
• underlying theory of training and assessing online - or at least a guide to some good current readings if there is not time to enrol in a full course anywhere.

The problem of distance is one we face regularly. As much a possible of the will be done in an online environment, with some old fashioned face to face communication just to help with the transisiton!