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About the session

As e-learning has become increasingly mainstream in universities a wider range of staff are now working alongside academics and learning technologists to support the online learning environment. Among these at UCL are our sizeable community of teaching administrators (TAs) and through the JISC Digital Department we sought to support these staff in developing their digital literacies and in working more systematically and strategically with them as change agents. This led directly to the establishment of a supported programme leading to the Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT), now open to academic colleagues as well as TAs. As the professional confidence and institutional status of our TAs grew, last year UCL launched our E-Learning Champions initiative to enable departmental engagement, ownership and focus in the implementation of our e-learning strategy. We explicitly included TAs to work in partnership with academics and ELE staff. This has proved remarkably effective and has already helped the e-learning benchmark e-learning activity, develop local plans across two of our schools and has led to the emergence of active faculty-level e-learning groups.

About the presenters

Clive Young leads the E-Learning Advisory team at UCL and has over 20 years’ experience as an e-learning consultant in UK universities and is also an Associate Lecturer at the Open University on their Masters in Open and Distance Education. Clive has initiated and participated in numerous UK and EU funded e-learning projects including Click and Go Video (JISC 2000), Click and Go Further (JISC 2002), VideoAktive (Minerva 2006), REC:all (Erasmus 2011) and The Digital Department (JISC 2011). He co-founded ViTAL, an ALT SIG with a focus in video in education which now has over 350 members.

Stefanie Anyadi is the teaching and learning team manager in the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, and manages a team of teaching administrators. She is responsible for strategic planning of teaching and learning support, and also deals with the day-to-day administration of a number of undergraduate and taught graduate degrees. She has extensive contact with undergraduate and taught graduate students as well as academic staff from a wide range of backgrounds. With twenty years’ experience in teaching administration at different levels, Stefanie currently supports the development of teaching administrators across UCL by establishing and organising the annual Teaching Administrator Conference and the Teaching Administrator Forum on Moodle.