A partnership of further education colleges in the West Midlands has announced the approaching release of a suite of e-learning tools to support teachers in online teaching.
Specialists from Colleges for West Midlands have developed the tools with the Blended Learning Consortium in a project funded by the Department for Education through the College Collaboration Fund.
They cover five themes: planning preparing remote learning lessons; strategies to engage and motivate learners online; techniques to assess online learner progress; supporting students with learning difficulties and disabilities; and setting group task and making the most of collaboration methods.
The resources will be made free to all colleges and teachers in the UK through the partnership’s flexible learning platform, with an online launch event to be staged by Walsall College on 25 March.
Dr Jayne Holt, assistant principal, learning services at the college, said: “We are incredibly excited to be launching these online synchronous teaching, learning and assessment resources.
“We have all been thrown into a very testing situation where the teaching profession has had to adapt almost overnight. Everyone involved in developing these materials is a teacher who has had first hand experience of the challenges of the online learning environment, and they have all worked brilliantly together as a team to put together these fantastic resources to support other colleges from across the industry.”
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