The Role of Mentorship in Distance Education and Training AND Choices and challenges: mid-career decisions for the records manager
The Role of Mentorship in Distance Education and Training
A usually advantageous, implicit feature of traditional tertiary education is the mentorship of students by professors and tutors. This relationship has its primary and pedagogical manifestation in the extension of teaching beyond lectures and tutorials to informal discussions and advice, but outside of these acceptable forms of mentoring that are recognised and to various levels cultivated and marketed by universities there has always existed the propensity for the student/teacher relationship to be personal to the point of being unethically preferential or exclusive.
Based on the premise that these situations of nurture and neglect occur frequently in academic culture this paper explores how they translate to distance education modes, which are increasingly preferred in the information management disciplines. Anecdotal, rather than empirical, evidence is referenced in what is intended to be a discussion of the unquantifiable dynamics of the teacher/student relationship and the risks to these dynamics when education is occurring between discreet sites. It is hoped teachers will be given cause to reflect on their student interactions and that students will be aware of and prepared for some of the challenges of distance education that go unacknowledged in university recruitment advertising and sometimes arise only at the end of courses or after graduation. This paper also considers the same issues in the context of vocational training and how mentorship in workplace training can be effected positively and negatively by the personal aspects of the trainer/trainee relationship.
Choices and challenges: mid-career decisions for the records manager
This session will offer an opportunity to engage with these issues and will pick up on some of the themes of mentorship that James Lowry introduces in relation to the delivery of distance education and re-focus them. Developing your career path is not always straightforward so Claire hopes that this session will help you to understand where to get the advice and support that your career deserves!
Claire has been employed in the Higher Education sector as a practising records manager and educator for the last decade and worked previously in both charity and commercial sectors.
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Claire Johnson, Independent ConsultantUntil March 2009 Claire was Senior Records Manager & Freedom of Information Officer, University of Glasgow. Claire joined the University... more...
James Lowry, Information Training ClinicsJames began his career in information management as a graduate in the South Australian public service before going on to... more...
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