e-portfolio band-aid from Vantage Technologies will accumulate the training action for acceptance and staff
Battersea Park School in London has deployed Paragon, an online connected able development (CPD) tool, to strengthen the hotlink amid CPD and achievement management; acceptable the abecedary training action for the school’s agents and their assessors and acknowledging the academy advance plan.
Developed by e-portfolio specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports abecedarian teachers’ and anew able teachers’ (NQTs) development and training requirements by acceptance them to upload affirmation of their training into a defended and easy-to-access e-portfolio, and their advisers to acceptance and adviser the affirmation to validate the plan and accommodate acknowledgment on their advance online.
By absolution trainees and NQTs upload affirmation of their training into a axial online location, Paragon allows them to appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards; this helps them to be added acquainted of their development needs and enables them to accomplish their training added focussed.
Key allowances of Paragon cover its ability and accessibility. Trainee agents are able to calmly and bound upload their affirmation into the e-portfolio and advisers are able to acceptance it by artlessly logging in. This saves time for both parties, authoritative the training action added effective. Paragon’s adaptability aswell agency that Battersea Park School has been able to clothier it to their specific requirements.
Paragon enables advisers to calmly adviser their trainees’ work, this helps them to accumulate a abutting clue of their advance and beam whether trainees are accomplishing the appropriate plan to hit their targets. By accepting able to add achievement administration targets into Paragon stronger links can be accustomed amid the targets and the CPD process. Paragon’s different Ideas Generator affection aswell gives trainees and agents acceptance to its library of assets to abetment them in their training and able development.
Kate Mahar, abettor arch at Battersea Park School, said: “Paragon has accurate to be an abundantly advantageous apparatus for us. It has not alone about alone the use of beefy files and folders for abecedary training, it is aswell acutely simple to use and administer – it’s been a big hit with our trainees, teaching agents and advisers alike.
“In accordance with Government best-practice guidelines for CPD we capital to advance our own CPD arrangement by creating a stronger hotlink with the achievement administration process. We had heard about added schools application CPD accoutrement and autonomous for Paragon as it was simple to use and could be customised to our needs. The CPD apparatus is allowance us to enhance the training action for all associates of staff, in about-face acknowledging our academy advance plan.”
As able-bodied as accouterment for abecedarian agents and NQTs, Paragon is aswell acclimated to advice beginning agents - who accept been at the academy several years – to hit their own CPD targets.
Currently Battersea Park School has deployed Paragon to its maths and English departments; it is now advancing to cycle it out to its IT department. The academy affairs to accept deployed the e-portfolio band-aid to all teaching agents by the end of 2009, and to all non-teaching agents by again end of September 2010; this is in accordance with latest Government guidelines, which acclaim that CPD for non-teaching agents is aswell monitored.
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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
2009年12月16日星期三
Echelon Corporation - Survey letters connected advance in CPD importance
Latest analysis reveals abiding advance in the use of connected able development (CPD) by UK able bodies.
The third anniversary CPD analysis by e-publisher Echelon Publishing focused on the accepted accouterment of CPD by able bodies, their approaching needs, and whether and how they will ambition to publish, deliver and clue CPD in the future.
The analysis begin that:
•CPD is binding for some 50% of responding institutions. This represents alone a bordering access on the amount from Echelon’s 2006 CPD analysis but is still a decidedly top amount a allotment of the UK’s able bodies.
•The accent of CPD is overextension from able and abstruse acquirements to business and claimed 'soft' skills.
•There is a about-face in accent from ascribe – that is, the amount of hours spent on the acquirements - to output, in added words, what the appliance of the CPD is to the learner’s job. Thus there is a about-face in CPD accent from able capability to claimed effectiveness.
•This makes it added difficult to adviser and appraise ‘CPD’ (because the action is affective from ecology hours spent on CPD to outcomes advance above a accomplished ambit of disciplines).
•Although about every organisation surveyed offered users the adeptness to log their CPD activities online, there has not been a cogent move to accouterment online alternate acquirements applications during the process. This shows little change from the after-effects of Echelon’s 2004 and 2006 surveys.
Commenting on the analysis findings, Echelon’s Chairman, David Hill, said, "This year’s analysis reflects – and reinforces - the accent absorbed by able bodies to advancement the able standards of their members.
"It is absurd to be continued afore barter appeal that able admonition is accustomed alone by those who accept kept their ability and abilities up to date."
Echelon manages the development and affiliation of apprentice and members’ acquirements on account of organisations including the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, the Institute of Civil Engineers and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The Echelon CPD Survey is allotment of a alternation of acquirements surveys conducted by the company.
For copies of the 2008 CPD Survey, email davidhill@echelonl.com
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About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing again offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated acquirements based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies.
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
PR contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; web www.boblittlepr.com
The third anniversary CPD analysis by e-publisher Echelon Publishing focused on the accepted accouterment of CPD by able bodies, their approaching needs, and whether and how they will ambition to publish, deliver and clue CPD in the future.
The analysis begin that:
•CPD is binding for some 50% of responding institutions. This represents alone a bordering access on the amount from Echelon’s 2006 CPD analysis but is still a decidedly top amount a allotment of the UK’s able bodies.
•The accent of CPD is overextension from able and abstruse acquirements to business and claimed 'soft' skills.
•There is a about-face in accent from ascribe – that is, the amount of hours spent on the acquirements - to output, in added words, what the appliance of the CPD is to the learner’s job. Thus there is a about-face in CPD accent from able capability to claimed effectiveness.
•This makes it added difficult to adviser and appraise ‘CPD’ (because the action is affective from ecology hours spent on CPD to outcomes advance above a accomplished ambit of disciplines).
•Although about every organisation surveyed offered users the adeptness to log their CPD activities online, there has not been a cogent move to accouterment online alternate acquirements applications during the process. This shows little change from the after-effects of Echelon’s 2004 and 2006 surveys.
Commenting on the analysis findings, Echelon’s Chairman, David Hill, said, "This year’s analysis reflects – and reinforces - the accent absorbed by able bodies to advancement the able standards of their members.
"It is absurd to be continued afore barter appeal that able admonition is accustomed alone by those who accept kept their ability and abilities up to date."
Echelon manages the development and affiliation of apprentice and members’ acquirements on account of organisations including the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, the Institute of Civil Engineers and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The Echelon CPD Survey is allotment of a alternation of acquirements surveys conducted by the company.
For copies of the 2008 CPD Survey, email davidhill@echelonl.com
Ends
About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing again offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated acquirements based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies.
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
PR contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; web www.boblittlepr.com
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