Partners

Sydney eLearning works closely with seconded staff from the faculties to ensure that strategic resources are most usefully deployed across the clusters. Below are the eLearning cluster directors who coordinate the expression of interest processes in the prioritisation of strategic eLearning projects for faculties.

Humanities and Social Sciences Cluster - Agi O'Hara

As a long time user of eLearning who’s committed to offering opportunities that enhance and improve students’ learning experiences, my key aim is to increase academics’ awareness of the diverse range of learning opportunities available and to promote the support offered by Sydney eLearning to assist academics who are wanting to engage with eLearning

Similar to the other two cluster convenors one of my major roles, together with our Sydney eLearning Educational Design Manager, involves facilitating open and continuing discussions between faculty reps through our monthly meetings. The purpose of these regular discussions are to communicate the key issues and current University projects regarding eLearning; to identify the diverse eLearning needs of academic staff and to provide feedback to Sydney eLearning about these. In short my role is about working collaboratively and cooperatively with academics and Sydney eLearning staff to foster the development of a community of academics who inspire and stimulate students’ learning through creating and integrating pedagogically appropriate eLearning opportunities.

Sciences and Technology Cluster - Dr Damien Field

My role within the Sydney eLearning portfolio has been to help foster a greater awareness of the ways we can create good student learning experiences, especially using online resources. I facilitate open and ongoing discussions between staff in the faculties and the members of Sydney eLearning through monthly meetings between faculty reps with our Sydney eLearning Educational Design Manager. Whilst we are continually reassessing our longer term goals and activities, during each year we have also been responsible, as a group, for the implementation of a number of projects that are pivotal to the future development of the appropriate blended learning environments that will suit the students of the 21st century.

Health Sciences Cluster - Melinda Lewis

I have been interested in the use of computers for educational purposes for a number of years and involved with the university’s eLearning initiatives for some time, and am looking forward to extending my faculty perspective to include the views and needs of the Health cluster faculties. My intended focus is the facilitation of cross faculty-based pedagogical discussion, on which effective eLearning rests. I also want to support the development of ideas to extend the use of current eLearning tools within clinical teaching, and to engage with the learning opportunities offered by the implementation of the streaming server and the ePortfolio project.