Peter Muir's Blog (2)

Hi everyone

We have just kicked things off with a new cohort this year. We run our programme in the second semester - from now until the end of June. A couple of things from last year that will guide us in our practice this year.

1. We will continue to use an online forum, where discussion topics and resources are posted. Participants are required to add posts and comment on those of others. We use a moodle platform for this, and all relevant resources are shared here. This reduces…

Just a quick update as to how we are going with the IGC Award at Discovery College.

We have about 16 Bronze and 4 silver students.

As we have found it very difficult to find a lunch-time that suits all, we concentrate on having relevant discussions in online forums with the odd face-to-face meeting.  This allows more flexibility, however we must ensure that students are active in forums to get the most benefit.  To do this we set deadlines and ‘tick off’ students once they have…