Raising the quality of vocational teachers: continuing professional development in England, Wales and Norway

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Lloyd ◽  
Jonathan Payne
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Vocational Teachers

scholarly journals МОЖЛИВОСТІ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ ДИСТАНЦІЙНОГО НАВЧАННЯ В БЕЗПЕРЕРВНОМУ ПРОФЕСІЙНОМУ РОЗВИТКУ ПРОВІЗОРІВ

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Yu. Babintseva
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Individualized Learning ◽  
Quality Of Learning ◽  
Distance Learning Technologies

<p>The possibilities of distance learning technologies to provide effective continuing professional development of ph ar macists<br />was discussed. Improving the quality of this study is to provide adaptability and confor mity knowledge transfer. Applying the principles of individualized learning was improved quality of learning more. Individualization of training can reduce the amount of errors in decision-making (analysis of situational tasks) more than twice was proved.</p>

Developing E-Learning Provision for Healthcare Professionals' Continuing Professional Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Susi Peacock ◽  
Gloria Maria Dunlop
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Care Services ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Practical Reflection

This chapter discusses the provision of continuing professional development (CPD) for allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) through e-learning. External pressures are increasing on AHPs to engage with CPD on a regular basis to improve the quality of care services and facilitate changes in working practice. E-learning has the potential to reach this group of diverse learners and integrate learning into their work schedule at a time and place convenient for them and their employers: eCPD. We provide a practical reflection grounded in the experience of practitioners and students who have been involved in our deployment of eCPD over the last three years. The issues that have arisen from this initiative will be familiar to many of those who have been involved in the deployment of e-learning in our sector. Ultimately, we hope that the solutions we have provided to meet the needs of this specific group of learners will address those for all e-learners. In addition, we believe that it will support the process of embedding (“normalising”) e-learning across an institution.

Equipping Educational Developers for Inclusive International Programs in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Davinia Sánchez-García ◽  
Emma Dafouz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Teacher Professional

Given the internationalization process of higher education across the globe, continuing professional development (CPD) of academic staff is vital to ensure the quality of teaching and learning. Under such scenario, the European Erasmus+ project “Educational Quality at Universities for Inclusive International Programmes” (EQUiiP) identifies the role of the internationally-oriented educational developer (ED) as crucial to higher education institutions (HEIs) and provides these institutions with the means to support academic staff and hereby enhance the quality of internationalized programs taught in international classrooms. Consequently, this chapter provides the conceptual rationale behind the EQUiiP project, delves into the needs of teacher education programs and the role played by the EDs, and describes the EQUiiP project and its outcomes by providing concrete examples of its inclusive CPD program. Finally, some implications and recommendations for teacher professional development, with specific reference to the Spanish setting, are offered.

Action Research as Continuous Professional Development in Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarimah Shaik-Abdullah ◽  
S. Kanageswari Suppiah Shanmugam ◽  
Mohan Chinnappan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
School Communities ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Research Action ◽  
Successes And Challenges

The quality of education in any country rests on school communities as a whole. However, the real implementers of innovations and changes in curriculum are teachers. Teachers, as practitioners, are the ones most often held accountable for successes and failures in educating schoolchildren. The way to facilitate teachers in handling challenges and keeping up with curriculum renewals is through constant support in the form of continuing professional development (CPD) by means of action research. Action research as CPD has been viewed as a critical platform for advocating change, which is the outcome of teachers’ ability and autonomy to lead in making informed decisions about their own practices. Given its usefulness, action research is found well established, vastly practiced, and widely published in Western countries. This has raised the question of the widespread use of action research as CPD in the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. Preliminary analysis reveals that in some SEA countries, such as Timor Leste, there is limited literature on action research, while in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, action research has been well documented. At the same time, there is an emerging trend in SEA countries to adopt different models of action research. In Malaysia, for instance, action research has been primarily classroom based, whereas in Indonesia, a critical and community based approach to action research seems to be prevalent. This suggests that the kinds of action research conducted in the different SEA countries may reflect variations in cultural, economic, and geographical landscapes. Given the importance of action research to teacher practitioners and school leaders, and in providing an identity to the action research approaches conducted in Southeast Asia, the historical trail of action research presents a window into the nature of CPD concerns of each country, as well as the successes and challenges of conducting action research as CPD for sustained impact.

scholarly journals Quality of Electronic Identity Card Service by Demographic and Civil Registration Service in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Kristina Setyowati
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Awareness Campaign ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
Public Awareness Campaign ◽  
Identity Card ◽  
Customer Perspective ◽  
Registration Service

This research describes the quality of electronic-identity card service provided by the Demographic and Civil Registration Service from a customer perspective. This study surveyed 100 respondents.  The responseswere analysed using Importance Performance Analysis and Cartesian chart. The results showed that the service quality in Demographic and Civil Registration Serviceof Sragen Regency was sufficiently high in quality.  To improve the e-identity card service, this study recommends the introduction of continuing professional development of the officers (personnel) as the providers of the service, and a public awareness campaign for the community on the availability of the e-ID card service.

Redesigning Continuing Professional Development Training (CPDT) in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 304-325
Author(s):  
Abdul Halim Mohamed ◽  
Azlida Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Ict Integration ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
Asean Countries

This chapter discusses the impacts of Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 on the continuing professional development training (CPDT), demanding lecturers/teachers to acquire knowledge of instructional design and information and communications technology (ICT). IR 4.0, often referred to as Education 4.0, requires universities to upgrade their CPDT that can enhance ICT skills of lecturers/teachers as well as students. The Ministries of Education (MOEs) and Ministries of Higher Education (MOHE) among ASEAN countries need to share their initiatives to help produce effective digital citizens. The quality of students depends on the quality of lecturers/teachers trained in CPDT. CPDT should be carefully redesigned to encourage more lecturers to enhance their student learning as well as engagement through ICT integration. Guidelines of redesigning CPDT are provided to redesign better and effective CPDT in the future. It is hoped that lecturers can increase their teaching effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity through continuous successful exposure of ID knowledge, skills, and ICT integration.

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