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Growing Concerns: practitioners’ positions on engaging in Continuing Professional Development in a deregulated FE and Skills sector

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A doctoral thesis exploring the extent to which FE teachers' engagement in informal online social-media discussions might be a path to overcoming the resistance to traditional CPD in a demoralised sector, and result in valuable professional learning.

Inclusive Employer Induction Toolkit

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The Inclusive Employer Induction Tolkit was produced by City College Norwich, ETF's Centre for Excellence in SEND (community). This toolkit shares the current practices at CCN in delivering induction activities to employers of placements and apprenticeships. 

The tools and techniques within the toolkit are derived from tried and tested tools that have been used extensively with employers. Each tool has a generic description and can be adapted by you in accordance with the requirements of the organisation. 

Making webinars more inclusive

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As more courses move online and tutors deliver more content through webinar style sessions, it becomes vital to understand both the benefits and the barriers of webinar-based lessons. The tools and platforms you have available may put constraints on how inclusive your webinar can be, this presentation accompanies the Making webinars more inclusive which explored some of the common issues and suggest ways to minimise their impact.

Engaging learners on the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

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How do we motivate and engage learners suddenly faced with learning independently online? This webinar will look at tools that can be used within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) help to motive and engage learners by adding collaborative activities and gamification. The session will use Moodle to demonstrate features within a VLE to support online learning. The webinar will look at the use of forums, wikis, quiz and badges.

Adapting content quickly to deliver online

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This webinar show how you can take a class presentation (PPT) and quickly adapt it for online use. We’ll look at the inclusion of audio, video and the use of notes to help learners here all the extra information you normally say in class.  We’ll explore how you can combine tools (Nearpod with Skype/Zoom or Teams) to make structured but interactive online sessions using your presentation as a starting point. 

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