Teaching and Learning Cascading professional development funds: London region

Closing date for applications: 10 December 2010 5:00pm

The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), working with the Institute for Learning (IfL) as a lead partner on teaching and learning, are pleased to invite bids from providers across the learning and skills sector for its new Cascading Professional Development Fund.  Approximately 500 small projects of £1,000 each are available to providers.

This new fund is for LSC funded providers who intend to run professional development or training sessions based on LSIS Teaching and Learning Programme resources or methodologies. The fund can be used flexibly, for example, for the release of staff time or venue costs.

This funding is only available in the following categories for change agents who have undertaken LSIS CPD training:

• Subject Learning Coaches (SLCs) (including those on the STEM programme);
• E-Guides;
• Professional Development Advisors (PDAs);
• Advanced Learning Coaches, Advanced PDAs or Advanced E-Guides.

Bids should be submitted by 7th January 2010.

Full details and application process from: Cascading Professional Development Fund

Becta has just agreed to match additional funding from LSIS to ensure an extension to the eCPD Programme due to oversubscription.

The extension will fund:

• forty additional training places;
• development with the sector of front-line guidance and products to maximise the impact and sustainability of the Programme; and
• an online multimedia version of the Programme for supported self-study.

For more information visit the Excellence Gateway website: http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=256813.

The new eCPD Programme for 2009-10 is underway and in this second year it includes an Advanced PDA programme.

Funding is available for successful applicants to the Advanced PDA programme: £1,500 Capital Grant plus £1,200 training bursary.

Full details and application form

Places on the Advanced PDA programme are limited and will be offered to middle or senior managers who:

* are working in either large multi-sited organisations or are supporting an established network of providers where the need to build e-learning capacity has been identified;
* are responsible for driving their organisation’s Information Learning Technology ( ILT) strategy forward at both a strategic and operational level;
* have begun to implement a cross-organisational approach to using technology to enhance teaching and learning; and
* are experienced deliverers of eCPD and who are in a position where they can lead the development of a team of a minimum of 5 PDAs.

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Nominations are open for Year 2 of the PDAs eCPD training programme. The deadline for applications is Friday 25 September 2009 and the next training events start in October.

In order to apply for the training, please complete and return a nomination form as soon as possible. The nomination form must be endorsed by a senior manager. The form, along with important details concerning the training can be found on the eCPD Online Learning Space (OLS)

About the PDAs eCPD programme

PDAs eCPD is delivered on behalf of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS). It is one of two training programmes which integrate to form eCPD:
• PDAs eCPD training – for staff with responsibility for driving the use of technology in teaching and learning across their organisation.
• E-Guides eCPD training – what every teacher, tutor and trainer needs to know about using e-learning and technology.

These training programmes are designed to support effective use of technology in teaching and learning across the whole learning and skills sector. They help fulfill part of the Institute for Learning’s (IfL’s) 30 hour (or pro rata) continuing professional development (CPD) requirement.
The programmes form a cornerstone in the delivery of the 21st Century Skills outlined in “Harnessing Technology for Next Generation Learning”.
For further details on the PDAs eCPD training programme, visit:

http://ecpd.bdplearning.com/ecpd/how_to_get_involved_pda.php

Are you a member of the OLS yet?
Registration is free and is available to anyone in the learning and skills sector, irrespective of the level of ‘e-confidence’ or enrolment on the PDAs training programme.
Register now to access the new eCPD framework and interactive CPD planning tool, a wealth of resources and to start networking with colleagues from across the country.

PDA and eGuide eCPD Brochure

The Showcase Projects are an additional strand within the eCPD Programme.
Funding will be available for providers who carry out and provide a showcase project, with support provided by a showcase facilitator. Projects will focus on whole organisational strategies and will be demonstrated through a range of technologies so that they model the benefits of e-learning.

Three London colleges: Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Redbridge are currently developing first round showcase projects to demonstrate exemplary practice in e-learning development and eCPD.

The application deadline for the second round of showcase projects is 23 March 2009.

Funding up to £2000 per project is available.
Full details:

http://ecpd.bdplearning.com/ecpd/news_details.php?id=68

Providers are invited to nominate, by 9 March 2009 for cohort two, an influential member of staff to lead whole-organisational approaches to improving teaching and learning, using technology. These staff will be the Professional Development Advisers and they will be trained to cascade the programme in-house, so that everyone involved in supporting learners can access appropriate training. Read more

PDA nominations deadline for cohort 2 = 9 March 2009

http://www.bdplearning.com/eCPD/get_involved.html

Showcase projects round 2 application deadline = 23 March 2009

http://www.bdplearning.com/eCPD/showcase_project_info.html

The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) has commissioned a new programme to support whole organisational approaches to the harnessing of technology for learning.

The eCPD Programme, part of the Teaching and Learning Programme, will develop materials and tools to support practitioners make more effective use of technology to improve teaching and learning.

Nomination of Advisers

Providers across the Further Education (FE) system are being asked to nominate an influential member of staff to lead whole organisational approaches to improve teaching and learning, using technology.

You are asked to nominate a Professional Development Adviser (PDA) with a successful track record of making effective use of technology to champion the use of e-learning teaching approaches across your organisation. PDAs will be supported by online resources, communities of practice and virtual networks, and there will be funding to support exemplary work and showcase effective practice.

Details of the programme and nomination of Advisers from BDP Learning at:

http://www.bdplearning.com/ecpd/index.html