A Young Lecturer in a Distance Learning University

I was appointed a Lecturer in Economics in September 2006 at the Open University. My teaching experience then far summed up to being a teaching assistant at the University College London i.e. being quite closely linked to the students trying to make them understand material that the lecturer had prepared and responding directly to their reaction when I could sense they had not understood something. It was demanding trying to provide the best service in 50 minutes once a week plus office hour for those who would use this extra time. Very boldly and perhaps unfairly I can say that the link of that 6-year activity to my current obligations in such a different institution is at best thin.