Hi there,
Wow, this is my first blog - ever! My niece will finally think I'm "with it"! Well, I'd better introduce myself - I'm Lesley (Fulton) and I live in Christchurch. I am originally from Scotland and emigrated to NZ in 2001 - and love it! I have a Scottish husband and 2 little kiwi kids (aged 3 & 5).
I work as training and QC manager for a digital transcription company. I create training courses to be done remotely for our home based transcribers and I am currently looking at getting NZQA registration for the training courses we offer. Whilst doing all the paperwork for NZQA I realised that the way we run our courses has never been evaluated and could be doing with being closely looked at.
I am hoping to use my own work for an evaluation project as it would be a very worthwhile to help me understand and evaluate how, and if, our courses meet the learners' needs. I was an EFL teacher for many years and am used to doing needs analysis for learners, however I do find it hard in the distance learning situation to do this and as our courses are more aimed at fulfillng the needs of our clients, I think I need to look at evaluating if our courses also meet the needs of our transcribers.
I'm really looking forward to getting started with this and meeting you all.
Cheers
Lesley
Wow, this is my first blog - ever! My niece will finally think I'm "with it"! Well, I'd better introduce myself - I'm Lesley (Fulton) and I live in Christchurch. I am originally from Scotland and emigrated to NZ in 2001 - and love it! I have a Scottish husband and 2 little kiwi kids (aged 3 & 5).
I work as training and QC manager for a digital transcription company. I create training courses to be done remotely for our home based transcribers and I am currently looking at getting NZQA registration for the training courses we offer. Whilst doing all the paperwork for NZQA I realised that the way we run our courses has never been evaluated and could be doing with being closely looked at.
I am hoping to use my own work for an evaluation project as it would be a very worthwhile to help me understand and evaluate how, and if, our courses meet the learners' needs. I was an EFL teacher for many years and am used to doing needs analysis for learners, however I do find it hard in the distance learning situation to do this and as our courses are more aimed at fulfillng the needs of our clients, I think I need to look at evaluating if our courses also meet the needs of our transcribers.
I'm really looking forward to getting started with this and meeting you all.
Cheers
Lesley
