After a very interesting teleseminar and a few days of "recreation" I would like to welcome you back to the forum.

In my opinion we all have now a very good starting position for further discussions via the Moodle forum, e-Mail or even Skype. I and of course all the other project members would be very happy, if we manage to establish a lasting discussion about e-Commerce, e-Business, Moodle, deployment scenarios, tutoring etc.

Although you’ve all completed the questionnaire (thanks for that), I/we still would like to know what your impressions of the seminar are and what we could do better the next train-the-trainer seminar: E.g. preparation of the seminar, discussion/moderation of the forum before the seminar, length of the seminar, quantity of the presentations, topics, length of the presentations, more about e-Learning/Moodle/tutoring, questions in the context of the following SME training, etc.

And, if you have any question regarding the lectures during the seminar, please feel free asking them here within the forum. I’ll collect and forward them to the lecturers and post their answers here.

So, please keep using the forum by asking questions, discussing problems and writing your thoughts about any subject.

With the best
Jochen

Dear Tutors,

like the last two times, 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, and reading books.

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 within a few hours.

Jochen Dietz

After a (in my opinion) very interesting teleseminar and a few days of "recreation" I would like to welcome you back to the forum.

In my opinion we all have now a very good starting position for further discussions via the Moodle forum, e-Mail or even Skype. I and of course all the other project members would be very happy, if we manage to establish a lasting discussion about e-Commerce, e-Business, Moodle, deployment scenarios, tutoring etc.

Although you’ve all completed the questionnaire (thanks for that), I/we still would like to know what your impressions of the seminar are and what we could do better the next train-the-trainer seminar: E.g. preparation of the seminar, discussion/moderation of the forum before the seminar, length of the seminar, quantity of the presentations, topics, length of the presentations, more about e-Learning/Moodle/tutoring, questions in the context of the following SME training, etc.

And, if you have any question regarding the lectures during the seminar, please feel free asking them here within the forum. I’ll collect and forward them to the lecturers and post their answers here.

So, please keep using the forum by asking questions, discussing problems and writing your thoughts about any subject.

With the best
Jochen

as the teleseminar is approaching I'd like to focus the aims of this forum, stated from Ilias:
· Get to know each other
· Find out the expectations of the training
· Find out what is your current level on informatics/ e-business/ e-learning
· What questions/problems should be discussed during the seminar 

We all presented ourselves, so we tick the first point off. Nearly all of you are working in some higher or lower level within the IT- and e-Business sector and at least two of you have experience with e-Learning. So we can also tick the third point off. But still missing are your statements to the other two points.

So please keep in touch by using this forum.

Jochen

Dear Olya,

Thanks for your interesting and thought-provoking statement. … What do the others think?

Jochen