Dear Nicola,

Thank you very much for your post. Your answer about the tutor’s job is quite interesting and it’s a good start for a further discussion, we should resume after the seminar. … It is absolutely true, that the “tutor has to look on things by the eyes of the participant”, and that “the difference is that tutors have to know all answers”. But what does that exactly mean? How can the tutor look on the things through the eyes of his participants? And how can he know all the answers? … I don’t want to post an answer now as I hope that the other tutors post their opinion to this topic as well. … Regarding the use of the LMS during the training of the SME’s, you’re right, it depends on the tools it offers. One important tool, the discussion forum, you’re already working with it. There are other tools like an integrated mail and chat programme and the possibility to integrate Skype (www.skype.com). All these tools and of course others as well you’ll get to know during the seminar. … But what I didn’t understand, what do you mean with: “The textual part is basic for learning but examples and Labs offer "all you should know asap". Can you give an example or could you please make some further comments.

Thanks

Jochen

Dear Tutors,

I’m very happy that you (all) have a good e-Leaning experience, based on the CISCO CCNA course. This is a very good precondition for your future work as e-Tutors, when you have to train SME’s with the help of the Learning Management Platform (LMS) Moodle. As you already know about e-Learning, I’d like to know from you,

- what a (good) e-Tutor should know?

- what the main fields of activity of an e-Tutor are or might be?

- what you’d especially like to learn during the Train the Tutor seminar?

- whether you’ve already any ideas how you would use the/a LMS in order to train the SME’s?

So, please have a little chat together and post your collective opinion.

With the best

Jochen

Hi Vinko,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the e-Learning discussion forum. In order to set a good example for your tutoring colleagues, you could write a little bit about your e-Learning experience and your expectations of the Train the Tutor Seminar.

With the best wishes from Germany

Jochen

As one of the moderators of this forum I'd like to set a good example and start with a short presentation of myself:

My name is Jochen Dietz, I'm 32 years old, an university trained teacher for economics orientated vocational schools and working currently at the Freie Universität Berlin within two projects:

1. Project FUeL, which aims at implementing e-Learning at the Freie Universität Berlin. I'm consultant of the economics department and contact person for all questions around e-Learning and the central learning management platform Blackboard.

2. Project ELISA, which you (hopefully) already know. Together with my colleagues from Berlin we are responsible for the evaluation of the learning management platform Moodle and that you all gain lots of usable (e-Learning) experiences before, during and after the train the trainer seminar.

Before this job, I was an academic research assistant at the Universität Leipzig (Chair of Business Education and Educational Management) and worked together with pedagogues, business economists and computer scientists on the development, implementation and evaluation of an online e-Commerce course. And before that I worked as an ad viser for Electronic Data Processing and Information Technology at the Eastern German Savings Bank Academy in Potsdam and was responsible for the according educational training program, including calculation, marketing, organization, coordination and evaluation.

Apart from my working life, I’m spending quite a lot of time with my son (playing football !) and the rest of my free time I’m surfing the internet, reading (Harry Potter) books and enjoying the world championship by watching nearly every match at home or at public viewing places.

If you’ve got any further question to me, my life and especially to e-Learning, Moodle, deployment scenarios etc., please don't hesitate asking any question. I’ll try to answer with a few hours.

Jochen Dietz