CPD and IFL

CPD and the teaching reforms are still being talked about in many meetings and staff development sessions that I have attended. The issue no longer seems to be 'what qualifications do I need to teach my ' subject or 'how do I record my evidence' but now I seem to hearing 'Why are we doing this?

The Institute for Learning has produced several case studies, whats useful about these case studies is that you can start see different models of staff development emerging. Maybe you can use these as a guide to assess your own staff development programme.

The case studies outline if staff development is mandatory, how often it takes place and what the content is and how each learning provider encourages its staff to take part in staff development.

XERTE

At the Learning Technologies event last week I saw Xerte being demonstrated. This is a open source xml editor which will allow you to create accessible learning objects. Having used several before my heart sank to see another, however having tried it out several times I would say that its easy to use even for the non technical like me. Take a look at the demo and then download the software to your PC and your away.

Opportunities for Professional Development Advisors

Need a challenge !!
Do you remember the ILT Champions programme, the Ferl Practitioners programme and more recently the E guides programme. Well now a new opportunity is now available to act as a paid facilitator the e CPD building on these programmes.

ALT is a partner in the "eCPD Enhancing Learning Programme", which BDP Learning is delivering on behalf of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service. (LSIS has been formed on the merger of the two national agencies QIA and CEL.)

BDP Learning is currently recruiting people to act as paid facilitators in the programme. The attached link is the details of how to apply.

http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/e-CPD_Facilitators_outline_20081104.pdf