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    Learning Futures Project - Developing staff with technology enabled learning

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    This project from New College Swindon supported governors, managers, teachers and students to develop their understanding of learning technology by creating three interactive online learning modules and supporting materials.

    Read the final report to learn how governors and senior managers reported an increase in confidence after completing the online modules. A zip file will be added shortly with a series of project resources.

    Learning Futures Project - Blending In - motivating, monitoring and tracking students work online

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    A staff CPD programme from Lewisham College to develop teachers’ skills in designing and applying blended learning tools and techniques to their own practice. The project developed an online Moodle course called ‘BlendingIn’ plus a ‘Tools for Blended Learning’ course that contains a series of practical ‘how to’ guides for staff.

    Learning Futures Project - Improving success by flipping the Learning

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    This project by Hull College, explored how four different technologies, across four different curriculum areas, would support the model of flipped learning.

    Read the final report to discover how 60% of staff increased their digital literacy and 100% of learners successfully achieved Construction modules. A zip file will be added shortly with a series of project resources.

    Improving access to offender learning in the community

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    This guidance note has a focus on offenders (aged 18 and over) serving sentences in the community under the supervision of the Probation Service. It identifies some of the barriers offenders may face and provides signposting to information and ideas to improve access to learning and skills provision. Version 2 was published in 2014 and the links were updated in version 3 in 2016.

    Resources to support offender learning - mapped to the Professional Standards

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    This document aims to provide a paper guide to resources which will support prison educators, managers and leaders in their work in developing offenders’ skills. These resources are all showcased on the Foundations’ Offender Learning Exhibition site (March 2016) - http://offender-learning.excellencegateway.org.uk/.

    Working closely with schools to achieve positive outcomes for young people: Bedford College

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    Bedford College works closely with schools and with the local authority to prepare pupils aged 14-16 for college entry and more recently has taken various initiatives to work with young learners to help guide their career choice. The case study highlights how that work comes together to help the college achieve good progression rates into employment, apprenticeships and higher level courses.

    An overarching vision and value frame to meet the needs of a broad range of learners: City College Peterborough(CCP)

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    City College Peterborough (CCP) places great emphasis on enabling individuals maximize their potential, and often works in niche markets to help support the economic and social development of Peterborough. The vast majority of its young learners are vulnerable with multiple and complex barriers to education. The case study focuses on how CCP responds to the needs of a number of different client groups, and emphasises how seemingly disparate work is delivered under an overarching vision and value frame.

    Securing a wider range of programmes through the development of quality hub of sub-contractors: Humber Learning Consortium (HLC)

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    With the tag-line “Passionate about Learning”, Humber Learning Consortium (HLC) is a management and quality hub for providers across the Humber and Yorkshire. This case study focuses on how Humber learning Consortium (HLC) effectively uses subcontracting arrangements to secure a wide range of personal development and employability programmes alongside mainstream delivery. Through specific examination of the Talent Match programme, the case study also shows how service users are placed at the centre of decision-making and so ensures participants take a positive approach to learning.

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