Distance Learning
iLearn Courses
In association with BBC World Service Trust.
Trainees will be able to perform practical tasks and submit them to online mentors for evaluation. These courses are free to CBA member organisations.
These courses will be available from January 2012:
- Reporting women’s issues
- General news room management
- Election reporting
- Features Journalism
To apply for a course please complete the application form and email it to Jasmine Dhariwal, CBA Training Director jas@cba.org.uk.
This course is an online self-directed course. You will be required to complete all modules and an assignment at the end of the course, which will be assessed by a tutor. If your application is approved you will then receive information on how to access the modules.
The courses will take place from January - March 2012 and further information for successful applicants will be sent in January 2012.
Self-Directed Courses
The CBA has launched two new self-directed online courses following the success of the Introduction to Change Management Course. The courses are now available online for staff in CBA member stations. The self-directed courses are based on content from previous introductory distance learning courses - with reworked tasks and video introductions.
These Self Directed courses are not tutor led and are available throughout the year. There are 4 modules to each course.
The self directed courses available are:
- Introduction to Change Management - Level 1
- Introduction to Radio Production - Level 1
- Intro to Website Development for Broadcasters - Level 1
- Intro to Television News Production - Level 1
- Radio News Production - Level 2
- Introduction to TV Production (Application Form)
- Introduction to Web Production
The course introduces broadcasters to the concepts of change management and performance management. Areas covered include the basics of common attitudes to change; communication techniques; performance management and appraisal systems.
This course will focus on interviewing, writing and production skills for radio journalists. Over the modules journalists are expected to develop the “must have” basics skills of Radio production in writing dispatches, conducting interviews, making packages, planning programmes and extending their knowledge in programming.
This self directed course is a distillation of some of the “must have” basics skills of TV production. It aims to help working TV reporters and producers to understand a range of issues and skills and to help them to apply them to their daily work.
As part of the move towards greater integration between traditional media and new digital media, this course will give Radio and TV producers a better understanding of potential and the most effective use of the web and other appropriate interactive technology to best benefit audiences.
Access to these courses is only available via a secure log in and password and the course is free for CBA member station staff.
If you are interested in any of the above courses please fill in the application form, and select the course you wish to part take in. If you require further information please email jas@cba.org.uk.