STAFF PERCEPTIONS OF C

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STAFF PERCEPTIONS OF CIT STAFF DEVELOPMENT

• Annie Grove-White
• Daljeet Johal

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• When and why do staff take up staff development
  in CIT
• How useful do staff find these opportunities?
• Some considerations
• Discussion

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Types of CIT

• Generic e-mail, internet, Word, Powerpoint etc.
• Virtual Learning Environment
• Discipline specific SPSS, Dreamweaver, CAD,
  Quark etc.

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What hampers staff taking up staff development in
CIT
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Net Culture 2001

• Lack of time, financial and people resources
• Lack of strategic development
• Lack of recognition of the importance of staff
  development
• Lack of information
• Lack of opportunity to exchange ideas and
  disseminate good practice

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• Generically, I suppose I update my skills by
  using stuff like web, e-mail, getting my head
  around, nobody taught me how to use Word or
  Excel, but I can use it because I taught it
  myself.
• ...most are communicating with students by
  e-mail. But I do understand that theres an issue
  about making block e-mails. Many people dont
  know how to do a block e-mail to a student
  cohort. I discovered this because Ive been
  appointed e-learning co-ordinator for Arts and
  Humanities....

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Why do staff take up CIT staff development?
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• A classic example is someone who wouldnt go
  anywhere near it until he was given a role where
  he had to contact 2-300 people and very quickly
  realised that e-mail was the best - so then he
  decided he was going to learn it and take it on
  board...

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• Those two typographic modules are being
  subsumed into one module... it seemed one area
  that I could substitute resources for face to
  face delivery would be typographic design. Not
  that theyre not going to be taught it, but they
  can get a basic understanding and then I can
  take them further on...

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• At the moment, every Monday night I attend a
  course and I need to increase my skills level in
  a programme because my students need me to do
  that
• But it is essential I cant not know about the
  latest version of Quark, or the latest version of
  Acrobat Its as much about the uses that the
  publishing industry are making about technology

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Methods used to develop skills other than
internal training
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• Im driven a lot by my practical research because
  what I found is that all sorts of exciting things
  can happen and that is passed into my teaching...
• The one thing Im working on at the moment is
  more research Culture and the Literary Prize
  Conference and I want to put the proceedings
  online I went on a Dreamweaver course and I am
  being very well supported by tour School
  webmaster and I was given time to develop that as
  well We are trying to incorporate it into my
  teaching as well...

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How useful is staff development in CIT?

• Excellent examples of good practice in learning
  and teaching using CIT
• Not all staff are as confident
• Increase in workload through technology
• Effectiveness of training structure
  
  personalising
• How staff identify their needs

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How are CIT development needs established?
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• We are very flexible I mean Thursday
  afternoons are open access for training. People
  sign up and come along or trainers will come out
  and work with small groups or even one to
  one...

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Cowan (1999)

• Reflection-in-action colleagues, just-in-time
  support, on-line tutorials
• Reflection-on-action regular Technology
  Day/Afternoon, group and one-to-one support
• Reflection-for-action staff appraisal, Annual
  Programme Reports, innovation grants, pilot
  projects etc. Linked centrally to other
  strategies
  

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Continuous Professional Development

• ECDL, Teaching Certificate etc.
• CPD minimise the burden on individuals and
  institutions (Framework Document)
• Extrinsic demands - versus- intrinsic motivation

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THE ENDThank you!