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Hi All

I hope everybody had a nice holiday period.  Today is the first day I've turned my attention towards OU after having a busy period leading up to Christmas. I'm looking forward to this activity in Unit 8 as its very practical.

I have felt the need to get  blogging for awhile, especially during TMA02 as I feel the need to express the challenges being faced.

The major challenge for me was the unique e-learning setting in which I operate, I work in a traditional training environment where small enroads [sp?] into e & blended learning have been made. There is though a major push in this area coming on stream in 09, I used this as the focus of my assignment - in reality 10,000 words would still have not covered it. This new initiative is being run accross many units in my organisation accross the whole country, unfortunately I am only knowledgeable about my own unit in my own location.

The result maybe that the topic is over-simplified on behalf of the reader - I still think I introduced some major challenges that will be faced by my org. and the f-back from management has been of some considerable interest in my thoughts.

So that's a real result for me and has also alerted them to my interest in this project.

My current conundrum is that there are areas of the course I have missed or not fully contributed due to requirements of work or TMAs. Do I go back to these or focus on keeping up to speed on next Units? The answer will probably lie somewhere in the centre i.e. if I find myself with time I'll have a list of to do's ready for my attention.

Unit8 beckons, I love the practical stuff on this course as it has an immediate impact on my learners - I have already introduced wiki's googledoc's to the course.

Hope all well

K