eLearning design includes librarians!

Online Education & Training is an online course offered by the Institute of Education, University of London and is run globally as a forum for rich structured collaborative learning with UK and world-wide educators. They suugest that this course might be useful for academics and related staff who may be part of e-learning design teams, e.g. librarians.
The course uses multimedia materials and platforms to consider different methods of teaching and syllabus design, closely tied to educational needs of the campus as well as distance use. This gives a real insight into the needs of e-learning provision from the student point of view.
The course deals with general issues of teaching online with regular practical tasks, and has a choice of optional topics on using the internet to enhance internet teaching. These are expected to include:

• online discourse and moderating;
• computer-based assessment;
• mobile technologies;
• real-time teaching with CHAT or video-conferencing and whiteboards;
• blogging and podcasting.

The next start is 13 May 2007. Cost is £499.00.

http://www.ioe.ac.uk/english/OET.htm