CPD Scotland – how online technology is changing CPD

The CPD Scotland project is helping change the ways that educators reflect on, identify and carry out their continuing professional development.

This seminar will examine how the project is:

• helping bring together educators and CPD providers through the national database of CPD opportunities, CPDFind
• using collaborative tools on Glow and the LTScotland online service to provide innovative and flexible CPD opportunities
• developing the CPDReflect toolkit to help self-evaluation and the maintenance of CPD plans, records and portfolios.

The CPD Reflect toolkit is an online initiative being developed by a partnership of Learning and Teaching Scotland and the National CPD team. The toolkit is due for launch in autumn 2008 and for many colleagues, this will be the first opportunity to see CPD Reflect in action.

Con has been a member of the National CPD team since December 2005.

Prior to joining the team, he taught geography and computing studies for more than 20 years, was seconded to the Faculty of Education, Strathclyde University, to help with staff development in IT and was training manager for a CPD company specialising in the delivery of online CPD in ICT.

His key responsibility in the team is the CPD Scotland project, which aims to provide a one-stop shop for CPD in Scottish education and to encourage the use of Glow and other online tools in the management and delivery of CPD.