{"id":436,"date":"2013-02-04T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T11:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=436"},"modified":"2013-02-04T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T11:17:22","slug":"openpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"OpenPAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEA accreditation is a &#8216;recognition of commitment\u00a0 to professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You can be an <a title=\"HEA site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/associate-fellow\/applying-to-become-an-associate-fellow\" target=\"_blank\">associate<\/a> of the HEA, <a title=\"HEA site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/fellow\/applying-to-become-a-fellow\" target=\"_blank\">a Fellow<\/a>, a senior fellow or a principal fellow.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>People who benefit will include central academic staff, staff tutors, ALs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To participate &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>IET provides accreditation for staff via the HEA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEA accreditation is a &#8216;recognition of commitment\u00a0 to professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education&#8217;. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}