Five minute interview
- Article 2 of 3
- JISC Inform, July 2011
Marion Manton, e-learning research project manager talks about leading the Cascade project, which gives education organisations the opportunity to increase the effectiveness of their course administration.
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What has been the best part of managing the project?
For me, the best part has really been moving from only working with early adopters to working with people who are maybe a bit less confident with technology and who haven't engaged with it in the past. You discover the things you can do to make a difference to their practice and really improve things for everyone.
What has been the worst?
I think it was an exceedingly ambitious project, both in terms of what we wanted to achieve and the breadth of stakeholders we involved, which meant it was a lot of hard work. At times, it felt very slow and that we were getting nowhere. In the end, it's all been worth it but there were times where we never thought we would achieve anything.
What next?
Essentially, there's not an area of work we started in Cascade that's not continuing in one way or another. We're very much looking at all the things we kicked off and just spreading them more widely in this department, the institution and beyond. Moving forward, we have been able to use the ways of working and connections established by the project to continue looking at how we can use technology to be more efficient, improve services and explore new areas.
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