HEA accreditation is a ‘recognition of commitment to professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education’.
You can be an associate of the HEA, a Fellow, a senior fellow or a principal fellow.
At the OU, this will be replacing our taught courses such as the postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning in HE and the postgraduate certificate in academic practice.
People who benefit will include central academic staff, staff tutors, ALs…
To participate – engage with the wiki, the resources and the faculty-based forums on the OpenPAD Moodle site, have support from a faculty mentor, completion of practitioner inquiry based on own practice, this should take 6-12 months, and will be assessed by he accreditation panel for OpenPAD fellowship. This will lead to both internal and external accreditation.
IET provides accreditation for staff via the HEA.
Hi Rebecca: do you have details about when the OU will start offering this training? who to contact, etc. Searching for “OpenPAD” on the OU’s intranet only finds Patrick McAndrew’s nom de blog 😉
Yes, I found that as well 🙂
I think Mary Thorpe is the person to contact.
Hi Rebecca, will this be available for academic-related staff too? There may be some interest from Library people.