Vital is a new approach to CPD from the Open University and the UK e-skills foundation
It describes itself as a,
“innovative professional development programme which aims to support schools in England to make the most of ICT in their teaching”.
Although the focus is on England much of the content available within vital will also be highly appropriate for the Scottish Curriculum.
Vital CPD is an interesting idea it links a combination of free CPD, with OU course, with courses from other providers. The backbone to the whole system is a moodle on-line community.
I really like the idea of ‘15 minute’ which is the term used by vital to refer to any planned CPD activity other than courses.
The intention of ‘15 minute’ is to create structured CPD opportunities which can be engaged with in a series of small pockets of time, each ranging from a couple of minutes to a maximum of about an hour. Its very similar to the CPD Scotland CPD Shorts.
I been asked to contribute to the ’15 minute’ programme and as a result from tomorrow morning I will find myself in the very first Vital Hot Seat.
Here is the full list of CPD opportunities with '15 minute' between now and the summer:
- January18-29, Hotseat - The changing learning landscape: Teaching and learning with emerging web technologies with Ollie Bray
- February 4, Keynote - ICT Visioning - The Strategy with Stephen Heppell
- February 8-23, Hotseat - e-Safety with Childnet with Ellen Ferguson
- March 1-12, Hotseat - Using ICT to individualise learning for students with learning difficulties with Karen Kelly
- March 15 4pm, Keynote - Online Peer Assessment - Students as Facilitators with Andy Runciman
- April 19-30, Hotseat - What do the national bodies do for us? with representatives from Becta - GTCE - TDA - QCDA
- May 5 2pm, Keynote - Leading and Managing ICT in schools with Terry Freedman
- May 10-22, Hotseat - A Whole School Learning Platform - Shirelands Collegiate Academy with Sir Mark Grundy
- w/b June 7, Keynote - ICT trends impacting education - what's coming our way? With Derek Wenmoth
- June 14-26, Hotseat - Can Learners be Researchers and Creators? With Ben Williamson/ Sarah Payton (Futurelab)
You can find out more about these opportunities and join the discussion over on the vital site. I will definitely be signing up to a few of the discussions.
I’m going to be
really interested to see how this goes.
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