Offering elearning services and pedagogic support. Providing clients with a learning management system (LMS) using Moodle with complete service: maintenance, training and support for optimisation of clients eLearning environment. Providing ICT consultation to schools, university and private/public organisations. eLearning production with client SMEs using Articulate & iSpringPro
AI specialist/guide for using Generative AI for research/teaching/learning. Lead user and administrator for Moodle LMS. Producer of video and pdf support for LMS. Providing ICT support for 200 staff in all subjects within Arts Faculty. Consultation, seminars, presentation and needs analysis for ICT usage. Liaison with subject matter experts (SMEs) for eLearning using Articulate Storyline. Occasional teaching of university level courses in linguistics, grammar, academic writing
Umeå University website: Satish Patel
ICT Tutor Support, Moodle 2 Support, Student Generated Content, Sociolinguistics
Foundation courses at A, B, C level in linguistics based subjects. Courses in linguistics, grammar, academic writing, sociolinguistics, C-Papers, vocabulary development, language history, applied linguistics, young learners, EU studies.
Additional tasks
Linguistics orientation, focusing on text analysis, genre and corpus studies of corporate annual reports. PhD thesis work, and research courses (equivalent to 80p) in language history, syntax, semantics, linguistics theory, language history, bilingualism, translation, pragmatics, discourse analysis
Additional Tasks (teaching)
The main focus during these 6 years was my family. Parental leave was interlaced with university studies, occasional short-term teaching contracts, and travel, summarised as follows:
Development of teacher training programs via the State Institute for Pedagogical Development and Ostrava University. Distance (using traditional methods) and on-site workshops and seminars for trainee teachers, in-service training for active teachers and unemployed teachers throughout Slovakia. Long term strategic planning for courses and workshops with school administrators. English tutor ay local school and university.
Marketing, management and teaching of language courses to general public and to companies in the local region. Development of teacher training courses both in-house and in the local region. Line manager for team of 30 teachers.
Teaching English for Specific Purposes in local companies and public organisations. Line manager for team of 10 teachers
Program for trainee teachers. Formal qualification requirement for teaching in the UK. Qualification has been recognised by Swedish authorities (equivalent to 40p) and provides 'behörighet' for teaching in Sweden (14-19 yr age group)
Adult education, school and company teaching
Equivalent to 120p Technical-Economics Program, according to Swedish authorities.
Since 2002, my educational interest in the usage ICT tools has developed exponentially. Feeling restricted by tools and software available to me for my teaching, I have searched, found and used IT tools (web 2.0) to enhance and to vary my teaching & learning environment. In recent years, blended learning (link to recent presentation) has become the norm for my distance and campus based teaching (link to article on LearningNet). More recently, my focus has shifted to Student Generated Content.
Language & Gender (eLearning lecture)
Wild Nordic Ice Skating (långfärdsskridskor)
Types of dangerous goods (Scribe animation)
Climate Change (Video for research project)
Student Generated Content (May 2017) University of Toronto
A few weeks each year, I lead an adventure tourism business catered for exchange students & visitors in Sweden. Participants experience a close contact to the remarkable natural environment of Sweden on water, on snow, on ice, and on mountains. These safaris are for the young and the old of a basic level of fitness.