Moving forward online CPD in East Ayrshire
March 1st, 2010
On Thursday, Neil Stewart of the Glow team and I worked with Pam Dunsmore and East Ayrshire colleagues on the use of CPDFind and Glow for CPD. East Ayrshire (like Aberdeen City, Falkirk and Orkney Islands Council) are now a registered provider on the system and Pam is hoping to use CPDFind as a complement to the course booking system currently offered by Gateway.
We also looked at the structure for local authority CPD that is under development by Fiona Taylor and her team in South Ayrshire and were impressed by its simple but powerful cycle; reflect-identify-practice-impact. Pam will be hosting a session in April where establishment-based CPD leaders will be invited to help us build the online CPD provision for East Ayrshire – just like that!
Neil in the meantime was supporting Audrey Brotherston of the CfE team to develop a simple front-end to national and local CPD materials for Curriculum for Excellence.