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Sandy Cope

Building CPD Frameworks to enable Academic and Learning Support Staff to

Deliver E-Learning in the Workplace

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My Background

• University Environment for 5 years• Worked in both ‘old’ and ‘new’• Just completing an EdD in CPD implementation in

HE• From the Business School originally• Seconded into Quality Department

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Flexible Curriculum for Industry

• Design or delivery• What does flexible mean?

– Adaptable – Generic Learning Outcomes?– Fit for Purpose – academia/industry/both?– On or off campus?– Not Monday-Friday 9-5pm

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Tradition

• Traditional Semesters - systems or staff?• Following Funding Models?• Tensions between research and teaching?• Tensions between speed of academia and

industry? Genuine or perceived? • Market Led Strategic Change (Nigel Piercy) vs not

loosing ‘old’ knowledge

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CPD

• What is it?– Misunderstood

• What can it do?– Build confidence to engage in change

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How can Universities Help?

• Creating the right environment• Baume and Khan (2004) “is development seen as

fundamentally about creating contexts that make development possible? Or is it seen as the development of staff?”

• Communities of Practice (Wenger)• Define Flexibility