This Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA 3) project in 2017/18 sought to prompt adult GCSE and Access students to make more effective use of feedback from teachers.  Since learners enrol at college with a variety of academic starting points, the project team hoped this would help them set meaningful stretch targets for learners and enable learners to set their own short-term goals and take greater control of their learning.

This Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA) project aimed to change student attitudes to maths and English by providing exciting and engaging challenges, set by real employers and based on real-world scenarios. Students created a set of 11 career-specific online videos with accompanying task sheets. Local employers collaborated. When the videos were used with students there was a 7% increase in the number who agreed with the statement “Everyone needs to get a maths qualification” and a 2% increase in the number agreeing "Everyone needs to get an English qualification”. 

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 exploring a project that commissioned community-based partners to provide education and training to a local authority's Business, Employment and Skills service, evaluate their initial approaches to identify weaknesses, and then develop processes tailored to individual needs.