My contact at Purdue was Dr Jennifer Richardson, Assistant Professor in the Educational Technology Program. Jennifer is in charge of the teacher education program. I 'discovered' Jennifer when I was completing an e-learning subject for a Master of Education. Jennifer and her colleagues have completed extensive research in distance learning especially online learning and videoconferencing. Jennifer is currently researching peer feedback in the online environment, specifically the discussion room.
Jennifer arranged a lunch in my honour and invited Faculty from the English Department, the Continuing Education Department and the Educational Technology Dept. It was an excellent opportunity to share viewpoints and information and the lunch was delicious!
Mike, from the Educational Technology Department, then took us to the videoconferencing room which is used frequently by a small number of Faculty. The room has the Polycom system as ours does, but houses duplicate screens - you can see the three of us on one of the screens.
I then spent some time with Dennis and Tianhong from the Continuing Education Department. Dennis and Tianhong explained their roles. Dennis informed me of the large growth of online courses over the last few years. Tianhong, an Instructional Designer, helps Faculty members to place courses online.
Thank you to all who made my visit to Purdue so memorable. Especially thank you to Jennifer for your warm hospitality and making yourself available to me today. I have gained so much from my visit. I also now can recognise a squirrel when I see one!
You are obviously having a great time. Love the blog it's really very cool. I can't belive you have time to do this when you are travelling around. Keep us up to date, its just great.
We moved into our new house and am loving it.
Cheers
Leanne
What a coincidence!
Where are you getting the time to do all this and then add to your blog. Well done all round
karen
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