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The Excellence Gateway has many resources to support CPD, including sections on:
CPD Requirements
Requirements for educators to maintain their professional status.
Using the Excellence Gateway to support CPD
How educators, departments and organisations can make use of Excellence Gateway tools and resources to support and develop their CPD programmes.
Programmes to support CPD
How participation in one or more programmes [...]

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Students are being encouraged to go wireless in lectures, using the University of Hull’s Wireless Interactive Lecture Demonstrator (WILD) to interact with their subject.
Dr Darren Mundy and his colleagues at the University’s Scarborough School of Arts and New Media are developing a range of cutting-edge software to encourage students to be more involved during lectures [...]

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Becta has launched the exciting Next Generation Learning Awards: Technology Excellence in FE & Skills.
Now in their second year, they will look to reward all types of learning provider in the FE and Skills sector and seek to identify those across the whole system who are fully confident in the use of technology.
Not only will [...]

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The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Calderdale College: The end of the classroom?
Calderdale College is creating a radically different learning culture and environment, based on using the most appropriate space for each “learning event”.
To read more, go to www.excellencegateway.org.uk/247517
Links to examples of good practice in our region can [...]

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The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Hull City Council ACL: Facebook your learners for engagement and retention
Theresa Rowland at HUll ACL directly supports her learners via the ‘Instant Chat’ facility on Facebook. This case study highlights the successes of her method.
Links to examples of good practice in our [...]

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The Excellence Gateway provides a free professional networking facility for its registered users. This facility allows you to find people on the Excellence Gateway who have similar interests, or a similar job role, to you so you can network with them to share best practice, ideas and queries. It is a highly intuitive facility and, [...]

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The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Leeds City College: The e-staff development approach
In Leeds City College Thomas Danby Campus, staff development has become e-staff development – instead of being an added option, e-learning is central to the entire approach to continuing professional development (CPD). As well as offering [...]

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Excellence Gateway, the online portal for the learning and skills sector, has added a new research section to its site.
Launched on 1 July 2009, the new research section enhances the existing resources in Excellence Gateway with easier access to research materials, links to other useful sites and the opportunity to use discussion forums and collaborative [...]

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The latest case studies from our region have gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Rotherham ACL: Loaning equipment for learning in the community
Rotherham ACL has developed an equipment loan scheme with their learning providers, as a result of funding from NIACE. This has had a major impact on learners in the community, making more equipment available [...]

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Not sure about the difference between a website and a wiki, a podcast and a sound recording, or how to best use them for teaching and learning?
The Effective Practice in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching was launched at the Higher Education Academy’s annual conference and helps to answer some of [...]

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