This Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA) project from 2016/17 aimed to improve digital pedagogy across the three institutions by helping teachers transfer outstanding classroom practice into the digital domain. The project focused on developing understanding of digital pedagogy more than developing digital skills. Through effective team working across three colleges, they created a robust programme which provided a range of ideas and information about technology and how it can be used for those interested in developing stand-alone online activities the programme provides.

A case study of a project a project  encouraging trainers to adopt peer-review and “lesson study” approaches to spread good practice and develop trainers’ confidence to adopt more active learning.

Building on existing policies and procedures they used a combination of approaches, which included opportunities for groups of staff to openly discuss the challenges and opportunities which the general subject of E and D presented. This encouraged them to develop a bank of locally tested and validated resources and reworked ideas for E and D teaching alongside attendance at relevant community events such as College Pride. Learners contributed by exploring how E and D in teaching, learning, and assessment might better reflect their concerns, experiences and gaps in knowledge.

This Outstanding, Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA) project from 2016/17 aimed to address the Ofsted recommendation to embed IT (information technology) to support ‘out of classroom’ extension activities to a wide range of community learning courses delivered by Bristol City Council in partnership with North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. The culture within their provision was of staff resistance to the use of IT, due to skills shortfall, as well as the inherent difficulties associated with delivering courses across many disparate venues with mostly self-employed staff.