Get On and Get Ahead - Quality online CPD from the Open University
AIA has a partnership arrangement with the OU to provide members with CPD learning opportunities.
Drawing on years of experience of providing high quality learning, The Open University (OU) has a large portfolio of flexible online courses in Business and Management to support professionals like you with your skills development and to contribute towards your learning and career development, as well as your CPD needs. In agreement with the OU, courses are available to Association members at a 10% discount.
All OU flexible online courses:
- provide structured and evidenced professional development which can form part of your personal skills development;
- can be started, studied and completed when and where it suits you;
- are conveniently divided into 1-2 hour chunks of learning around your chosen subject ;
- can be taken over several months to give up to 30 hours of skills development per course;
- are affordably priced under £450 – which represents a competitive rate of less than £15 per hour;
- enable you to apply your learning directly to your work and professional practice;
- offer support and personal feedback from expert learning advisors;
- award an Open University Certificate on successful completion to use in your c.v. and to underpin your CPD portfolio.
How to sign up for a course
Go to www.open.ac.uk/cpd. Click on the ‘Special offers’ banner and then a course link or click here . There is a wide range of topics to choose from - examples include:
Strategy and leadership skills
Influencing strategic thinking for finance professionals
Leadership for professionals
Managing people
Interviewing skills for successful selection
Effective virtual teams
New managers toolkit
Managing organisations
Corporate social responsibility in practice
Managing a professional practice
Marketing, finance and operations
How can supply chain ideas help you?
Sustainability at work: how to go green
Professional Skills
Ethics at work: professional ethics in the 21st century
Creative problem solving
Communication and Negotiation
Getting it right: consulting and communication inside organisations
Working across cultures
Working together across professional boundaries
CPD in Practice
Continuing professional development in practice is a six-month Level 7 (SCQF level 11) master’s level course aimed at people with a professional qualification (degree or professional equivalent). Successful completion will give you 30 credit points towards either a masters qualifications or an undergraduate award. You can bring courses from the OU or other providers or ‘non-course’ CPD completed for their organisation or professional bodies into the course.
OU Services to AIA Members
As part of our partnership with the OU, the OU’s Library Services provides links to free electronic resources (eresources) and services you as members.
Getting started
Go to the OU’s Library and Support Services to Partners website at www.open.ac.uk/library/libpartnerships and link it into your own library services or bookmark it for future reference.
