Faculty of Education and Social work

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Faculty of Education and Social work

• Continuing Professional Development
• Statistics and Approach to the Business of
  Learning
• W. Ian Ball
• Vice Dean

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Analysis of CPD Participants

• Credit-bearing programmes
• 1800 participants
• 1,000,000 fees income
• 1,400,000 SHEFC income
• Non-Credit-bearing programmes
• 2000 participants
• 100,000 fees income

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CPD staffing resource infrastructure

• 30 FTE Academic Staff
• 8.2 FTE Support Staff
• 0.5 FTE Faculty ICT/Web Design Team

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Geographical split of participants
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Funding of credit-bearing programmes
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Funding of non-credit bearing programmes
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Mode of learning
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Learning Contract
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Stakeholders
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Training and EducationorContinuing Professional
Development
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Designing for Learning and More Effective
Practice
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Constructivist Learning Theory

• Inspired by Piaget(195419811995)
• Constructivism emphasizes the building that
  occurs in peoples minds when they learn.

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Learning ApproachThe Constructivist Perspective

• Learners actively construct new ideas through
  collaborative activities and /or through
  dialogue.
• Activities which encourage collaboration and
  shared expression of ideas, within the community
  of learners and in the workplace.
• Support for reflection, peer review and
  evaluation.
• Emphasis on Practitioner research.

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How does e-learning fit?

• E-learning can be embedded in distance learning,
  open learning and flexible learning.
• The secret is to blend and align the right
  resources with the right modes of delivery within
  the right context with the right levels of
  support in order to meet the learners/customers
  needs.

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Childrens Panel Advisory Committee Training
Package

• Learning Design Specification
• 650 individuals New Experienced
• Package to be used at home or at monthly meetings
• Had to be multimedia and multi platform
• Had to addressed different styles of learning
• Had to address knowledge, skill and attitudinal
  development
• Had to be freestanding with no tutor support
• Had to be less than 150 per package