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programmes and teaching practices that improve learning experience and bring about specific applied skills, including the application of broad disciplinary knowledge using problem-based approaches.
The Open Campus Country Sites (OCCS) may be considered to be, par excellence, the distributed ambassadorial and community outreach nucleus of the University in the Caribbean Region, giving that geographical space’s premier University its Pan- Caribbean flavour. The OCCS provide considerable face-to-face teaching as well as administrative and supplementary support to the online students, for example teleconference/videoconference facilities, registration assistance, and comparable services. In addition, the OCCS also offer short courses, one and two-year certificate courses, and may mount seminars or short workshops in response to expressed local needs.
The Deputy Director CPE and Programme Development
The Office of the Deputy Director Continuing and Professional Education (DD- CPE) was established within the OCCS in 2013. A proposal entitled “Proposal for the Local and Regional Delivery of Continuing and Professional Education” was submitted and approved by BUS in the academic year 2016-2017. This proposal outlined a policy for CPE Credit and Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The Section also developed the CPE Coding Policy to govern coding of all CPE courses. While the original mandate for CPE was specific to the OCCS, there has been pleasing cooperation and collaboration across all Divisions to enhance the Open Campus’s ability to offer the best programmes and courses to all its students and relevant stakeholders generally.
To further facilitate and enable the tremendous volume of work undertaken by the Office of the DD-CPE, the Office was expanded in 2015 to include a Programme Manager with a concentration on all deliverables, specific to the SDEC project. Forever mindful of the constant need to improve and adapt its governance and administrative structures to facilitate its work, in 2016 the Office expanded once 191
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