Last Christmas, SOLSTICE hosted a festively cheery, technology-enhanced learning networking event which brought together colleagues from across the University.

We’d like to do the same this year but focus a chunk of it onto the VLE Review as we’ve had some of your views, but would like to ensure we have obtained as many as humanly possible. I certainly know that staff and students have strong views about the current VLE, Blackboard, but getting  a sense of what kind of VLE we could or should have is proving more challenging.

Many colleagues will be aware that we have been running a series of stakeholder engagement workshops with academics from each of our faculties.  We want the views of a wide range of academic staff .. from those who have been VLE champions to staff who may not have had much interaction with the VLE.

We are proposing to run one further workshop with an open invitation to all academic staff.  This workshop will take place on Friday 11th December 9.30 – 12.30. We’ve been using TurningPoint, (an electronic voting system with ‘clickers’ that work with PowerPoint) to capture staff views. If you like the look of the voting system, you can also talk to us about borrowing it for your own classroom use.

The workshop will conclude with a festive Christmas lunch..and mulled wine. If you’ve already attended a VLE Review workshop, please encourage colleagues to come along. You, of course, are welcome to come to the lunch!

There are a limited number so spaces for the workshop so its first come first served.  Please contact Katherine Richardson, richark@edgehill.ac.uk ext 7754. Please also let her know if you are just coming to the luch so we can order enough food.

We look forward to seeing  you.