Meeting with Complementary Therapy

Last week I attended a meeting at Staffs Uni with tutors from FD Complementary Therapy faculties and IT delegates from Cannock, Shrewsbury, Newcastle and Stoke colleges.

The tutors were interested in having an online system where they can share their learning materials, experiences and practices and collaborate effectively.

The following suggestions were made:

• Portal could be an ideal solution for their requests once implemented, however they were looking for a quick fix to support their students at the present time
• One of the colleges could host all the course materials and give outsiders access to their VLE
• Create a shared area on blackboard where they can upload their materials and exchange ideas and practices

Issues concerning the tutors:

• On how to use Blackboard properly
• The organisation of the materials on Blackboard
• Who would be responsible to decide which materials should be used?

In the end, it was decided that Blackboard could be the most appropriate solution, as every tutor/learner has theoretically a login account on it.

It was agreed that a meeting with an IT Staffs team member would be very useful. This will be arranged and we will have a demo of Blackboard at the next meeting.