Activity 3.1 

This  exercise is asking me whether I have any strengths or weakness in connection with e-learning practitioner. I don't quite know how to answer that except that my research skills needs to be improved in terms of using the Internet . Hmmm

1. Zorah -PDP needs analysis grid

1. 	How do you rate your own: Teaching ( Tutorials and E-forums)	Yourself compared with other lecturers in the Faculty of Business and Management					Comment
   		Complete novice	Below average	Average	Above average	Expert
   1	Knowledge of the subject you teach to write modules					/	Have to write  subject modules
   2	Understanding of students’ knowledge base				/		Good knowledge
   3	Ability to select appropriate content for assignment and final exam papers					/	ditto
   4	Ability to structure and sequence content in Module writing					/	ditto
   5	Ability to explain the key ideas in modules and in tutorials					/	ditto
   6	Ability to give and use examples throughout in modules and in tutorials					/	ditto
   7	Ability to ask and answer questions helpfully in e-forums and tutorials				/
   8	Ability to summarise and give the ‘big picture’					/
   9	Ability to convey enthusiasm for the subject in Modules and in tutorials					/
   10.	Ability to mark exam papers according to faculty standards					/	Marking criteria’s given
   11.	Handouts and other learning support materials				/
   	Research and Publications
   12	Publications in refereed journals /magazines/newsletters/newspapers			/			Need to get 2 journal articles published as KPI
   13	Writing and presenting papers at national and international conferences				/		Need 2 conferences; national and international
   14	Research collaboration with other academic colleagues			/			Currently working on a project
   15	Initiation and securing of research grants; institutional, national and international			/			Have secured a research grant and working on it
   16.	Web searching skills; different search engines, databases , Boolean searches etc. Consultancy /Training Projects				/		Do this all the time for secondary information search
   17.	Initiation and collaboration with industry			/			Have done this in the past but need to have the contacts
   18.	Report writing skills			/			Used to academic writing , not as much into business report writing

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3. Source: H851 Practice Guide 7, Reviewing and Improving your Teaching, The Open University, 1998, p.31.