Today I jump started my car for the first time ever. Could this constitute CPD?
I mean, okay, it's fairly straightforward, but I did have to check how to do it, and it does involve a small amount of knowledge about batteries and electricity.
Taking the "counting hours" to an extreme: attending an IET event, sleeping or chatting through it, and then picking up a CPD certificate is NOT CPD. I say extreme, but I have seen this happen over and over again.
This is something I've witnessed many times!
It'd be very difficult for the IET to police the 1600+ events we put on every year, but as CPD is about the learning and reflection over and above process, I imagine that in theory anybody who has their CPD record examined by the IET or their employer would get found out if they were not paying attention.
Taking the "counting hours" to an extreme: attending an IET event, sleeping or chatting through it, and then picking up a CPD certificate is NOT CPD. I say extreme, but I have seen this happen over and over again.
This is something I've witnessed many times!
It'd be very difficult for the IET to police the 1600+ events we put on every year, but as CPD is about the learning and reflection over and above process, I imagine that in theory anybody who has their CPD record examined by the IET or their employer would get found out if they were not paying attention.
