Blended Learning Consortium Peter Kilcoyne ILT Director Heart

Blended Learning Consortium Peter Kilcoyne ILT Director Heart of Worcestershire College pkilcoyne@howcollege. ac. uk

A quick look

Why Blended Learning? • Independent learning • Digital literacy • Flexibility • Efficiency

SOLA Statistics Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Health and Social Care 2016 - 2017 Interactions with SOLA course (Mean) 450. 00 400. 00 350. 00 300. 00 Interactions with SOLA Moodle Course Grade Number Hits Total Hits Mean Distinction * 30 11979 399. 30 Distinction 9 2448 272. 00 Merit 5 1392 278. 40 Pass 8 2022 252. 75 250. 00 200. 00 150. 00 100. 00 50. 00 D* (30) D (9) M (5) Grade Achieved P (8)

SOLA Statistics Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production 2016 - 2017 Interactions with SOLA course (Mean) 300 250 200 Interactions with SOLA Moodle Course by Grade Average Logged interactions total Mean Logged Interactions Average of Distinction* 266 1173 234. 6 Average of Distinction 1136 227. 2 Average of Merit 673 134. 6 Average of Pass 150 100 50 0 Average of Distinction* Average of Distinction Average of Merit Average of Pass Student Grade Average

SOLA Statistics Level 3 Extended Diploma in Applied Science 2016 - 2017 Interactions with SOLA course (Mean) 1000 900 800 700 Interactions with SOLA Moodle Course by Grade Average Logged interactions Mean Logged Grade Average total Interactions 600 500 Average of Distinction* Average of Distinction Average of Merit Average of Pass 400 300 200 100 0 Distinction * Distinction Merit Student Grade Average Pass 11791 4889 1879 538 907 815 469. 75 538

SOLA Statistics Level 3 Extended Diploma in Business 2016 - 2017 Interactions with SOLA course (Mean) 200 180 160 140 Interactions with SOLA Moodle Course by Grade Average 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Distinction * (6) Distinction (8) Merit (7) Student Grade Average Pass (0) Grade Average Logged interactions total Mean Logged Interactions Distinction * Distinction Merit Pass 1125 1265 682 0 187. 5 158 97. 4 0

Ofsted 2018 “Learners benefit from good resources and facilities, teachers make effective use of information learning technology (ILT) to engage and motivate learners. ”

Ofsted 2018 “Most teachers skillfully use a broad range of resources and ILT, both to enliven learning in the classroom and to enable learners and apprentices to access learning resources when undertaking independent study at home or at work. ”

Ofsted 2018 “The large majority of teachers are adept and skilled at using the college’s virtual learning environment to enrich and enliven learning both within lessons, and when learners are working independently to carry out research outside the classroom. Most learners report that they enjoy this style of learning; they feel that, as well as being an effective way to learn, it helps them extend their learning and develop the self-discipline they need to be successful when they progress to the next level of learning, university or employment. ”

Why a consortium? • Costs of developing high quality content is too high for individual colleges • We all have much the same content needs • Benefits of sharing costs • Developing capacity • “For the sector by the sector”

Blended Learning Consortium- FE How it works • Open democratic partnership led by HOW College with democratic decision making on content developed • Annual membership fee of £ 5 K, free to Specialist Colleges • Members vote on content to be developed • Staff in member colleges paid to write and develop content. Involvement in this is optional • Sharing existing quality content with other members • Members get all content developed, source files and later updates

Progress to date • 97 learning providers have joined. This is nearly 50% of all UK Colleges plus some ACLs, WBL, Specialist College and 6 FCs • Six rounds of content development completed or underway. Making up over 1600 hours in 43 subject areas. 1200 developed, 400 in development • Members get all content plus source files – can repurpose and adapt. • 300 hours of existing college content being shared

About the Content • • • Interactive learning objects Any device and platform Thirty one hour objects per subject Formative assessments in all HLTL 5 and Scorm Source files provided. Customisable • Not specification specific • Stand alone (can be used in any order)

Benefits of this model of content development • Flexible usage – can used to fit in with individual organisation, course and teacher approaches • Accessibility • Interactive and engaging • Updated (not like milk) • Tracking progress, attainment and completion (Ofsted) • Sharing of cost, effort and expertise

How is content being used? • Blended Learning onsite • Online learning • Classroom • Absence Cover • Additionality • Tasters And many others

Development process Voting Consultation Curriculum writing Editing E-learning production QA & user testing

97 Learning Providers and counting…

Blended Learning Consortium – current members

and some more…

BLC Community • • • Termly meetings Annual Conference Sharing good practice Building capacity Niche collaborative projects Democratic “learning impact award” • Elearning industry partnerships

Feedback from members “The quality and the content of the BLC learning objects as well as the ability to quickly install them into our SOLA courses has made them an invaluable resource for the Grimsby Institute. They save us huge amounts of time and are an incredibly cost-effective way of having consistent and well-constructed activities. ” Graham Raddings, Learning Innovation Manager, Grimsby College

Learner Feedback Helpful with Studies Poor Easy to Understand Satisfactory Good Excellent Ease of use 0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Learner Feedback • “they are easy to understand” • “Easy to read, contain key information and include plenty of detail. ” • “very effective for learning” • “it was very informative” • “making ron disappear” • “its going to help my career”

Content Development 2015/2016

• • Digital Literacy L 2 Employability L 3 English L 2 Engineering L 3 Health and Safety in Social Care L 2

• • • British Values Prevent Health and Social Care L 3 Business Studies L 3 Sports L 2 Sports L 3 E-safety – Anti Bullying Beauty L 3 Travel and Tourism L 2 Enterprise L 2

• • • Study Skills Public Services L 2 Hair and Beauty L 2 Travel and Tourism L 3 Early Years Childcare L 3 Interview Preparation Maths Contextualised for Vocational Areas Hospitality and Catering (L 2) Hospitality and Catering (L 3) Health and Care (L 2)

Content Development 2016/2017 Higher Specification

• • Plumbing L 2 Maths, FS L 2 Site Carpentry and Joinery L 2 Numeracy L 3 Public Services L 3 Brickwork L 2 Animal Care L 2

• • • Computing L 3 Numeracy L 1 Sport L 3 Digital Technologies L 3 IT/Software Development L 3 Art and Design L 2

Video Content • • Sport L 3 Engineering L 3 Maths L 2 Sport L 2 Construction Public Services Motor Vehicle

Content Development 2017/2018 Higher Specification

• • Catering L 3 – Tier 3 ICT L 2 – Tier 2 Motor Vehicle L 2 – Tier 2 Health and Care L 3 – Tier 3 Plumbing and Gas L 3 – Tier 3 Engineering L 3 – Tier 2 GDPR More to come

Video Content • • Early Years Plumbing L 2 Plumbing L 3 More to come

Content upgrades and refresh • New colleges join can get previous years content by “back paying” • Will be used to refresh and possibly upgrade content as and when needed

Delivery from different learning platforms Moodle • As HTML 5 hosted on college server and linked to from Moodle course • As Scorm uploaded into individual courses if tracking needed in gradebooks • Discussions on going regarding a Noodle type tool

Delivery from different learning platforms Canvas • Plans with Instructure and BLC Canvas Colleges evolving • BLC content in rinfenced area of Canvas commons • Sharing of courses built with BLC content between BLC Canvas Colleges ITSlearning • BLC content in ITSlearning Library for BLC Colleges

BLC G-Suite Edition ● Ease of teacher access ● Resources of approved quality ● Integration with Google Classroom ● Grade & time tracking ● Funding Council reporting ● Analytics ● GDPR Compliant

Subjects Access to all BLC subject areas with an Intuitive interface that works with Mobile Phones, Chromebooks, Tablets and PC’s Allow teachers and staff to assign E-learning content from anywhere on any device

Lessons ● Assign lessons directly to Google Classroom ● Pre defined titles and instructions for students ● Always the most up to date version ● Indexed for ease of access ● Fully searchable

Teacher Reports ● Student usage report ● Number of completed lessons ● Number of unfinished lessons ● Month on month view ● Monitor individual students

The power of the consortium Digital Economics or buns vs bytes • Each college getting £ 485 K plus of content development for £ 5 K • Leveraged efficiency saving of £ 480 K per college • Approx. Cost £ 8 per learning object tier 1 £ 13 per learning object tier 1 £ 16 per learning object tier 1

The power of the consortium Collective buying power Including • 70% off Articulate Storyline • 20% off ALT Membership and CMALT • VLEs. Canvas, Moodle, Itslearning • 40% off Cengage e-books and textbooks • 25% off Skills 2 Learn resources • Planet e. Stream • Educare • Virtual College • £ 15 K Sponsorship from City and Guilds

Benefits to Colleges in the BLC • Access to a large and growing collection of outstanding vocational learning content at a small cost to help move blended learning forward • Developing capacity in content development if they chose to get involved in this • Sharing best practice across BLC community • Savings though collaborative buying power on a range of digital products and services

Moving forward • Continued growth • New areas of development • Different kinds of content? • US, NL, Australian and South African BLCs?

Any Questions? For more info pkilcoyne@howcollege. ac. uk http: //blc-fe. org/