Supporting & Embedding CPD for BCE Helen Blanchett, JISC Netskills

© JISC Netskills 2011 Today Understanding BCE in FE What activities are involved? What skills and attributes are needed? How are these skills currently supported & developed? Present project outputs & activities How you can contribute

© JISC Netskills 2011 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

© JISC Netskills 2011 What is your role in engagement? What activities does it involve?

© JISC Netskills 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

© JISC Netskills 2011 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

© JISC Netskills 2011 Multi-domain skills base Identifying skills a challenge Identifying practitioners a challenge! ‘Sole traders’ BCE roles or activities? Terminology BCE Practitioners

© JISC Netskills 2011 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

© JISC Netskills 2011 Collaboration

© JISC Netskills 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 Self-evaluation tool

© JISC Netskills 2011 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

© JISC Netskills 2011 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

sdfd BCE 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

© JISC Netskills 2011 What key skills are required for successful engagement? What personal attributes are needed?

© JISC Netskills 2011 How are these skills supported? How should they be supported?

JISC Netskills is a JISC Advance service hosted at Newcastle University