A student's experience of e-learning

Unbeknownst to us, Karen Gunn, a student on the MSc in Psychotherapy Studies in Sheffield (although based in Belgium!) has posted an article to an online magazine published by the University on the topic of "Inquiry-based learning". Click here to view the article.

First partner meeting

The first CEP partner meeting was held on Friday 17th July in Sheffield. Mia and Claude from Leuven and Marc from Bordeaux arrived the night before, and we enjoyed a lovely meal at the "Plough Inn" in a rather rainy Hathersage along with Emmy, Susan, Digby and Chris.

The next day in ScHARR, Digby led the meeting and discussed the various work packages which partners are committed to providing. We were also able to do some interviews with project staff using a camcorder which will be edited and put online, both here and via other related webpages, to aid in the dissemination of the CEP project.

It was excellent to all come together in one place to meet for the first time, and everyone agreed that it was very useful in mapping out the work which we will be doing together over the coming months.

ECOTEC monitoring visit

Today we had a visit by Helen Metcalfe, the CEP project officer from ECOTEC in Birmingham. Digby and Chris discussed progress on the project in the morning, and showed Helen the work already undertaken on the Moodle site, available via Dilemma training

Helen phoned Emmy at lunchtime to ask her some questions about Dilemma's work. In the afternoon, she met with Steve Preston from the finance department in ScHARR.

Helen reported that the visit had been very helpful in outlining the aims and objectives of the project, ahead of the first partner meeting on July 17th 2009.

CEP Researchers

The CEP project is very pleased to welcome two new staff- Claude Missiaen, the Researcher for the University of Leuven, and Susan Iacovou, the Researcher for Dilemma Consultancy (shown in the photograph). Both will be attending the forthcoming partner meeting in Sheffield on Friday 17th July. We await news about how recruitment has been going for the Bordeaux partner.