Pat Godfrey
- A qualified teacher and instructional designer based in Portsmouth, UK
- Offering and leading learning for over 20-years
- Specialising in the eLearning role
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Throughout my early career I've been involved in the creation, development, or modification (updating) of equipment, documents, or content for projects including new vehicles, prototypical boxes and bags, reference manuals, aid memoirs, presentations, and even whole courses. Much of this work has all but evaporated through time and the constant re-iterations required of an operational landscape.
Sadly too, much of my evidence of this work has eroded to distant memory along with the joys of loading floppy disks. However, with some application to IT archaeology I'm collating this collection of reminiscences and professional outcomes toward (finally) creating a portfolio.
Blog pages tend to appear in chronological sequence but the index in the sidebar will help organize your journey through my meagre offerings and enable me to prioritise your stops.
All about me
I'm an Instructional Designer with a trail of experience in training, teaching, and management. I dabbled with medicine once, too.My role as a Learning Designer at The National Strategies ends in March 2011. It is my first job within the eLearning industry: an expedition into professional practice to reconnoitre the ground and extend my university training (.pdf) and professional practise.
I have learned many things among which is that no matter how much peer-reviewed theory has been published the industry will still choose to follow opinion and fad. The industry is also preoccupied with constraining eLearning within a SCO box. It's my belief that eLearning should be free (in an ideological and not financial way - I need the money after all) and should be able to blend with the learners' preferences. I also learned something about en-hyphens, but confess - I've not really retained that outcome.
Anyway, it's not about the industry or The National Strategies. It's all about me - and my imaginary friend, the learner.
