After the success of the first MCHS workshop that took place in July 2012, a second workshop has recently taken place with MCHS staff from the 3 Campuses: Zomba, Blantyre and Lilongwe.
The 4 day workshop was very well attended by faculty with a keen interest in learning the skills required for e-Learning.
In the opening address from the Registrar participants were urged to make good use of the time and create resources that will be used by the learners in the various Programmes of the College. She encouraged participants to work hard in e-learning activities so that Malawi College of Health Sciences can reach the levels of College of Medicine and Kamuzu College of Nursing.
She was grateful to the Project in Scotland for providing funds for the workshop and for the licences that the Campuses are using to develop electronic resources. She noted that e-learning provides students with a valuable learning opportunity that is learner-centred as it accommodates individual learning preferences and needs.
The workshop is a key sign of the sustainability we have been driving for in this project with participant who attended our previous workshops now assisting in the training of more faculty with an interest in e-Learning.
The workshop outlined some of the ways forward for the coming months:
- Upload the resources developed at the workshop to add on to the resources being accessed by students.
- ICT Officer to fully develop the intranet by the end of Oct 2012.
- To run a student survey to get their views regarding the usability of the e-learning resources.
- Future resource development workshops to invite only those lecturers who will continue to develop resources in their campuses using the licences provided by the Project.
