Virtual Bridge Sessions: Approaches to Learning and Teaching during Remote Delivery
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The document discusses lessons learned from remote learning in Scottish colleges, highlighting successful strategies and challenges faced during this transition. Key findings include the importance of digital infrastructure, learner engagement, and the necessity for improved support and training for staff and students. Recommendations emphasize addressing digital poverty, enhancing teaching skills, and providing adequate resources to facilitate effective remote education.
Virtual Bridge Sessions: Approaches to Learning and Teaching during Remote Delivery
- 1. Transforming lives through learning Approaches to Learning and Teaching during Remote Delivery Virtual Bridge Session - 17 June 2021 Ian Beach HMI and Dumfries and Galloway College
- 2. Transforming lives through learning Purpose This session will pull together lessons learned for HMI work with colleges over the period of remote learning. It will examine the changes, and strong practices identified. This session will also be supported by Dumfries and Galloway College who developed a strong CPD programme reflecting the different skills levels of staff for the use of technologies during remote learning.
- 3. Transforming lives through learning National Overview HM Inspectors of Education, June 2021 • Purpose: an overview of learner and staff experience, to highlight and share what is working well, identify challenges and actions for improvement. • All 27 colleges across Scotland participated and involved professional dialogue with 495 college staff and 180 learners. • Five themes with approximately 5 colleges participating per theme.
- 4. Transforming lives through learning Findings reported under the headings • Digital infrastructure • Planning remote learning and teaching delivery • Engagement of learners in remote learning • Monitoring and assessing learner progress remotely • Assuring the quality of remote learning and teaching • Impact of remote learning on the wellbeing of learners and staff
- 5. Transforming lives through learning Learning and Teaching - What is working well in the delivery of remote learning? 1 • Teaching staff using a balance of asynchronous and synchronous delivery to meet the learning styles of learners. • Learners value the flexibility to access remote learning materials and to study at their own pace. • There is some evidence that using a more learner-centred approach is producing deeper learning and greater differentiation of learning. • Teaching staff are increasingly adopting more creative delivery methods, including flipped classroom approaches. • Teaching staff have developed a range of approaches to provide feedback for learners on assessment and progress with learning through online platforms.
- 6. Transforming lives through learning • Learners are able to recognise a range of skills that they are developing through learning remotely, in addition to subject related skills. • Learning opportunities have been enhanced by the creation of virtual events, virtual tourist attraction tours and guest speakers from the world of work. • Most colleges have established new or enhanced roles for development staff who support teaching staff with the creation of online resources and the use of new technologies. • CLPL training opportunities have significantly increased staff confidence in the revised learning, teaching and assessment strategies essential to online learning. Learning and Teaching - What is working well in the delivery of remote learning? 2
- 7. Transforming lives through learning Learning and Teaching - What are the main challenges in delivering remote learning? 1 • It is challenging for colleges to replicate in the home environment the technical equipment and space for movement, such as sport or drama, required for some subject areas. • There has been an underestimation of digital capabilities. • Many teaching staff describe how the engagement of younger learners at FE level is poor. • Teaching staff comment that the lack of social interaction has been a challenge for both themselves and their learners.
- 8. Transforming lives through learning • Awarding bodies have been slow to provide clear and timeous guidance on assessment requirements. • There remains a considerable amount of digital poverty, with some learners still having difficulty accessing remote learning. • The increased responsibility for learners to manage their own learning within remote delivery poses a challenge, as it requires independent learning skills and self-discipline. • The issue of cameras on, or cameras off, during remote delivery will require a consistent approach across the college sector. Learning and Teaching - What are the main challenges in delivering remote learning? 2
- 9. Transforming lives through learning Learning and Teaching - What further support would help improve remote learning? • Investment to provide appropriate digital equipment and connectivity for the delivery of remote learning. • Support for learners coming directly from school who do not have the time management or digital skills prior to starting a college programme would help to raise their skill level and confidence. • Clear, timeous and unambiguous guidance from Awarding Bodies. • Sharing of practice should be encouraged and promoted more widely across the college sector.
- 10. Transforming lives through learning Recommendations Colleges should: • continue to address digital poverty and enable all learners to engage in remote learning; • develop approaches that support all learners to engage in remote learning, with a particular focus on younger learners on FT FE programmes; and • ensure that all staff have the skills required to deliver learning and teaching, and services to support learning, remotely;
- 11. Transforming lives through learning Introduction to Dumfries and Galloway College To support effective use of MS Teams for remote learning, the college devised a tailored staff CLPL programme. This is offered at three different levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced, in recognition of the different levels of ability of staff in the use of technology. This approach worked well and supported teaching staff to develop their digital skills and build their confidence in the use of remote learning and teaching techniques.
- 12. Transforming lives through learning Questions ? Ian Beach ian.beach@educationscotland.gov.scot Barbara Nelson barbara.nelson@educationscotland.gov.scot Mandy Wallace WallaceM@dumgal.ac.uk Angela Connelly ConnellyA@dumgal.ac.uk Report • New report highlights the approaches to remote learning in Scotland’s Colleges | News and events | Education Scotland Cameos • Remote learning in Scotland’s Colleges (education.gov.scot)