Happy New Year from the Communications Work Package!

Although it’s been a quiet few weeks because of the Christmas holidays, we’ve found time to put together another podcast in our series of interviews with Work Package leads.  On this occasion Marek Oledzki spent some time chatting to Helen Adey, the lead of the Evaluation work package, about her perspective on the project so far and the way in which evaluation will work alongside the other aspects of SHARE.

Helen talks about the role of the work package, some of the complexities of evaluating a large project and the reasons why it plays such an important role in a project of this scale.  For those involved with the SHARE project or for others involved in large-scale projects, I’m sure you’ll appreciate hearing what’s happening in terms of evaluation – thanks for talking to us, Helen!

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Date recorded: December 2009
Podcast Length: 5 minutes 17 seconds

A transcript of the podcast is also available in Microsoft Word format:

Helen Adey – interview transcript, Dec 2009

In this Podcast, Ian and Yvonne talk about the relationship between Desire2Learn and NTU, the way in which learning object repositories allow  ‘education to broaden its horizons with so much sharing’ as well as the importance of getting the technology right to enable change in teaching practices.  It comes across strongly that the benefits of SHARE  will extend far beyond the project’s life and the enthusiasm from both Ian and Yvonne is infectious!

We’ll be talking to Ian and Yvonne later on in the project to see how things have continued to develop and we look forward to tracking their progress.

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Date recorded: November 10th 2009
Podcast length: 12 minutes, 33 seconds

A transcript of this Podcast is also available in Microsoft Word format:

Ian Mathers and Yvonne Monterroso – interview transcript

We’ll be talking to Vicki later on in the project to see how things have since developed and look forward to tracking the progress of the Development and Implementation group via these Podcasts.

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Date recorded: July 29th 2009
Podcast length: 9 minutes, 26 seconds

A transcript of this Podcast is also available in Microsoft Word format:

Vicki McGarvey interview transcript, 29 July 2009

Professor Sue McKnight, Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources

Early on in the SHARE project, the Communications Work Package group decided that we would interview some of the key people in the SHARE project. We felt it would help set the scene, be a great record of the project and be a useful way to communicate the different views of the project from various members of the Project Team.

One of the first people I spoke to was Professor Sue McKnight, who is the Project Owner for the SHARE project. The following is the recording of the interview I had with Sue back in July. In it, Sue discusses the background to the project, some of her hopes for the outcomes of SHARE and some of the issues surrounding the cultural change which is needed for the successful use of the learning object repository.

This is the first in our series of SHARE podcasts and we hope that you enjoy it! Click on the play arrow to start listening…

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Podcast length: 15 minutes, 24 seconds.
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We’ve also provided a transcript of the interview for you to download in Microsoft Word format.