Are there any downsides to having an e-learning committee in a school?
Some e-learning committee members regard meetings as an opportunity to try and grab as much for their area as possible.
As a counterbalance to my article about why schools should have an e-learning committee (especially larger schools), I have also written one about what’s wrong with e-learning committees. Well, at least in my experience.
I wrote the article in 2015, and nothing has happened since then to make me change my views. The only thing I would alter is that while I noted that some subject areas wished to be represented on the committee, I should have written that all subject areas wanted to be on it.
I think that having a committee is better than not having one, because in theory at least it means you can all work together for the greater good, and a more efficient allocation of resources. But it’s worth being mindful of the potential downsides: forewarned is forearmed, as they say.
Here’s the link to the article:
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