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Practice Based Professional Learning

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This CETL aims to engage colleagues across England in improving the quality and flexibility of practice-based learning provision in professional courses in partnership with the HE Academy and other national bodies (e.g. National Council for Work Experience).

Over five years the centre aimed to:

• Enrich the OU’s Supported Open Learning model, bringing in practice-based learning, extending staff’s pedagogical repertoires.
• Extend opportunities for OU students to engage in effective practice-based learning, using online methods and partnerships to widen access and participation.
• Capture and codify excellent practice embodied in nominated courses, and knowledge about implementation arising from extending practice-based learning opportunities in the OU.
• Refine and extend that codification through research and drawing on recent findings, notably ESRC’s teaching and learning research programme.
• Demonstrate advances in e-learning such as blogs and ambient and mobile technologies, applied to flexible practice-based learning.

Projects:

• A study of the efficient assessment of portfolios.
• A study of the assessment of “wicked competences”.
• Analysis of tutor accounts of their informal learning.
• Mentors’ understanding of practices assessment in the nursing profession.
• Practice writing and assessment.
• Workplace based assessment in medicine

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