Continuing Professional Development: Looking at Old Problems in New Ways
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10th National CPD Accreditation Conference, Mississauga, Ontario, Keynote, Oct 02, 2018.
Despite the widespread availability of learning technologies, many of the traditional problems of continuing professional development (CPD) remain with us today. These problems range from managing conflict of interest to identifying learner needs to improving and measuring learning and workplace outcomes. These problem persist because we do not accompany new technology with new ways of looking at these old problems. New technology allows us to define CPD in a way that is individually driven, ongoing and performance-centered. [Backchannel Transcript]
Despite the widespread availability of learning technologies, many of the traditional problems of continuing professional development (CPD) remain with us today. These problems range from managing conflict of interest to identifying learner needs to improving and measuring learning and workplace outcomes. These problem persist because we do not accompany new technology with new ways of looking at these old problems. New technology allows us to define CPD in a way that is individually driven, ongoing and performance-centered. [Backchannel Transcript]
Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca
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