For a while now I’ve been thinking about how to better support students in their IT skills via peer support. It periodically slips back into my conciousness and it did so yesterday when I saw someone tweet about a piece entitled Survey: ‘Digital natives’ need more IT support. Survey: ‘Digital natives’ need more IT support | eCampus [...]
I was reminded on Friday of my IT peer support project. It died a death due to lack of funding back in June last year. Well, last Friday I bumped into the person who chairs the group that said ‘yes’ to the project but ‘no’ to the funding. So I emailed them afterwards to chivvy [...]
I blogged about our IT peer support project a few months back and, as some of you know via my tweeting, after very hopeful noises from the committee we were reporting to, it turns out there’s no money to fund the project after all. The email I got from the committee chair said: “The upshot [...]

Just about managing to keep up my once a week blogging habit. I posted a couple of weeks back about our IT peer support project and this is a bit of an update. The paper went to our snappily titled Student Experience and Enhancement Committee a week ago. The reception was very positive but they [...]
Well, the IT peers support paper has been sent to our Student Experience Enhancement Committee and we’ll wait and see what they say about it on 8 May. The paper requests funding for a 12 month 0.5 post to coordinate an IT peer support scheme. The costs of the project don’t include the cost of [...]




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