A website by Easton & Otley College. This is an action research page about staff and students' opinions of digital technologies and how online learning and mobile devices could be used more extensively within college learning programmes.
A handbook to help employers make sure their recruitment process and their workplace are as fair and accessible to deaf people as possible.
This resource comprises the report and resources developed by the Equality and Diversity Partnership Project led by Walsall College in 2009-10. This project aimed to develop an online resource to help Classroom Support Assistants (CSAs) to broaden their awareness of E&D to enable them to increase personalisation of support and provide more effective support for all learners and increase their own job satisfaction. The resources included are the final report and a guide to using the E&D Moodle.
This video illustrates the Stockport Continuing Education Service's Stepping Up in Sustainability project, which sought to embed sustainability across the service including through development of teaching and learning, organisational strategy and staff development. Other resources relating to the project are available by searching for "Stepping Up in Sustainability: Stockport Continuing Education Service"
Through this project, SRC set out to develop a sustainable exemplar, working in partnership to stimulate behaviour change within the college and local community.
The 'Looking After the Environment' project aimed to design and implement a modular Sustainability Learning programme comprising a training launch, supported workshops, Learning Circle and VLE resources. The embedding of core sustainability principles across the spectrum of Family & Adult learning through collaborative working partnerships would ensure a lasting legacy of educative sustainability principles. Search 'Stepping Up in Sustainability' to find similar projects.
This case study describes North Warwickshire and Hinckley College’s approach to developing an interactive online toolkit for promoting and embedding effective practice in sustainability. The aim was to create and develop a highly engaging and interactive online rapid e-learning training tool, for promoting and embedding effective practice in Sustainability, with the added intention of providing in-house accreditation for Governors, staff and students alike.
The project was designed to enable a better understanding of sustainable development (SD) amongst tutors, and allow them to experiment with SD within different areas of the curriculum. The project aimed to: develop a strategy to embed SD into all curriculum areas; create piloted and evaluated SD activities and lesson plans in four curriculum areas; educate staff on the subject of SD; work with a wide variety of staff to develop SD pedagogies; and create an online ESD resource bank for FE and HE tutors offering lesson plans and resources that can be adapted to suit each curriculum area.
This project looked to develop two change-agents for each of four academic areas (hair and beauty, engineering, essential skills and motor vehicle). One agent would be chosen from the academic team, the other, such as technicians or Operations Leaders, from the support team. The project created a VLE area from which material relating to sustainability could be downloaded.
This project arose from an identified lack of age-appropriate teaching and learning resources for adult learners at Independent Specialist Colleges. The project created a web portal (the ArkHive) to hold a range of existing and newly-developed age appropriate resources that contain reviews by users. The website is now live at www.ark-hive.co.uk.
