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Supporting & Embedding CPD for BCE
Helen Blanchett, JISC Netskills
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Today
Understanding BCE in FEWhat activities are involved?What skills and attributes are needed?How are these skills currently supported &
developed?Present project outputs & activitiesHow you can contribute
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JISC programme since 2007– "the strategic management, by higher
and further education institutions, of relationships with external partners and clients, and of the associated knowledge exchange and workforce development services."
BCE strands– Knowledge exchange, Employer
engagement, Lifelong learning, Public engagement
BCE 'practitioners'– Staff engaged with external businesses
& communities– Translators, brokers, 'boundary
spanners'
Business & Community Engagement
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What is your role in engagement?
What activities does it involve?
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2008-10 Supporting CPD, Training & Staff
Exchange for BCE Determine support and enhancement
needs of existing BCE training provision and BCE practitioners
Design, in conjunction with stakeholders, a training support package
Pilot, deliver and evaluate the training package in collaboration with partner organisations
Background
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Supporting CPD, Training & Staff Exchange for BCE
Enriched access to national CPD opportunities through targeted online technology
Improved and broadened capability of how to achieve embedded CPD amongst BCE practitioners
Enhanced professional development of BCE practitioners and improved capability in their use of technology as an enabler of BCE
Outcomes
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Multi-domain skills base Identifying skills a challenge Identifying practitioners a challenge! ‘Sole traders’ BCE roles or activities? Terminology
BCE Practitioners
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Provision fragmented / non-existent Who has responsibility for BCE? Lack of acknowledgement of activities Contracts don’t include BCE Lack of career progression Each institution is different Targeting CPD
Institutional support
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2008-10 Supporting CPD, Training & Staff
Exchange for BCE Created a pilot online self-evaluation
tool Based on AURIL's CPD framework for
Knowledge Transfer Maps to development resources http://www.netskills.ac.uk/bcecpd/
Self-evaluation tool
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Working with AURIL (and others) to update framework
Broadened to include all aspects of BCE
– What is common across all BCE activities?
Running survey / interviews / focus groups
Further resources to improve institutional support
Online tool will be updated
Supporting & Embedding CPD for BCE
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Further developing the online self-evaluation
Improved metadata and targeting Providing targeted access to
development resources based on an individual diagnostic
Incorporating the new framework Designed for long-term sustainability
Enhance & support CPD for individual BCE practitioners
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Practitioner
Development Resources
Accreditation
Skills & Attributes
The user / BCE practitioner is at
the core
The self-evaluation allows the user to measure their skills and attributes
The user is then guided to resources to help meet identified gaps
In future, the tool will show how these resources can contribute to gaining accreditation.
Framework
Providers
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What key skills are required for successful engagement?
What personal attributes are needed?
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How are these skills supported?
How should they be supported?
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