The Practice-based Professional Learning Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PBPL) is about developing expertise and knowledge around practice-based professional learning and offering this to all Open University colleagues and other bodies with an interest in practice-based learning.
PBPL has engaged across all the major communities interested in a practice-based approach to learning - students, employers, Associate Lecturers, professional bodies and faculty colleagues, other CETLs and organisations, groups and individuals outside the Open University. We share a concern for learning about effective practice whether from study, in the workplace or from a combination of these settings. Our area of interest relates to courses that intend to connect contexts of work and study and to enable the student to bring together learning generated by both.
This orientation has fostered a wide range of exploratory projects supported by PBPL on issues such as the construction of professional identities, perceptions of professional practice, the impact of course study on professional practice, the roles required for the support of learning in both the workplace and study setting, the role of technology and e-learning, and so on.
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Let's Talk Practice
View the PBPL blog which highlights issues and reflections around practice-based learning.
Visit the PBPL blog - Let's Talk Practice
Open CETL
PBPL is part of the Open CETL, a collaboration of the four centres based at the Open University. It is not a formal organisation but a way of describing how we are working together to inspire each other, to achieve greater impact and increase efficiency.
