Webinar 1: Making the most of online learning

Hosted by Alistair McNaught and Sally Betts with Sarah Simons and Vikki Liogier

Supporting training modules:

• Accessibility category modules.
• Dealing with difference and diversity category modules.

Webinar 2: Delivering through a virtual classroom

Hosted by Sally Betts with Sarah Simons and Vikki Liogier

Supporting training modules:

• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Principles.
• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Practice.
• Digital Practice: Recording Teaching Sessions.
• Collaborative Learning: Collaborating with learners synchronously (Part 1).
• Collaborative Learning: Collaborating with learners synchronously (Part 2).
• Collaborative Practice: Share, collaborate, improve (Part 1).

Webinar 3: Adapting content quickly to deliver online

Hosted by Sally Betts with Sarah Simons and Vikki Liogier

Supporting training modules:

• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Principles.
• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Practice.
• Digital Practice: Recording Teaching Sessions.
• Collaborative Learning: Collaborating with learners synchronously (Part 1).
• Collaborative Learning: Collaborating with learners synchronously (Part 2).
• Collaborative Practice: Share, collaborate, improve (Part 1).

Webinar 4: Supporting learners in VLEs

Hosted by Sally Betts with Alistair McNaught, Sarah Simons and Vikki Liogier

Supporting training modules:

• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Principles.
• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Practice.
• Dealing with Difference and Diversity: Accommodating different levels of digital skills.
• VLE: Embedding content into VLEs to improve learning.
• Collaborative Learning: Collaborative learning activities for online learners.
• VLE: Supporting and guiding learners with a VLE.
• Dealing with Difference and Diversity: Resolving intermittent and disruptive attendance.

Webinar 5: Engaging learners in VLEs

Hosted by Sally Betts with Sarah Simons and Vikki Liogier

Supporting training modules:

• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Principles.
• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Practice.
• Dealing with Difference and Diversity: Accommodating different levels of digital skills.
• VLE: Embedding content into VLEs to improve learning.
• Collaborative Learning: Collaborative learning activities for online learners.
• VLE: Supporting and guiding learners with a VLE.

Webinar 6: Supporting learners with online reading skills

Hosted by Alistair McNaught and Sally Betts with Sarah Simons and Vikki Liogier

Supporting training modules:

• Learning benefits of text-to-speech.
• Bring your own device teaching strategies.

Webinar 7: Making webinars more inclusive

Hosted by Alistair McNaught Sally Betts with Sarah Simons and Vikki Liogier

Supporting training modules:

• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Principles.
• Accessibility: Creating inclusive content – Practice.
• Influencing and promoting policy for equitable access.
• Designing mobile learning.

The ETF's Enhance Digital Teaching Platform has many bite-sized modules, created to support teachers in everyday practice, which contain insight, information, advice and support for teaching and remote learning. The recently published Guide (see top of page) picks out the modules of most value for pedagogical practice in remote learning. This webinar by the Guide's authors shows you what they are, where they might fit into your teaching, learning and assessment and how to use them to best effect.

According to the National Literacy Trust, 16.4% of adults in England, or 7.1 million people, can be described as having 'very poor literacy skills.' At a time when our learners are working remotely, we will explore how technology can support them with writing skills as they try to complete coursework and assignments. 

With online teaching and learning being a new environment for many teachers, it is important to begin to understand how effectively your practice is developing. In this session we explore how collaborative critical reflection with colleagues can help you identify successes and challenges, reflect on them and develop strategies for improvement. 

An unexpected consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the realisation of the many benefits of a skilful use of technology to enrich online learning. Additionally, teachers have had a unique opportunity to spend time collaborating and reflecting with colleagues, sharing practice and developing new skills to meet these new challenges. This webinar builds on the recent ‘Enhance your powers of critical reflection’ session and explores some practical strategies that will enable teachers to prioritise this collaborative way of working as FE institutions re-open in September 2020. 

The most powerful educational technology you will ever use with your students does not belong to your organisation. It belongs to the students. Your student's mobile phone can support learning in a wide range of ways from personal organisation to research and referencing, reading more efficiently, writing more productively, mastery learning, collaborative learning and alternative assignments. 

From 23 September 2020, FE and Training providers have a legal duty to make sure websites (including virtual learning environments and the resources on them) meet new accessibility requirements. It's not too late to get prepared - and you are legally (and reputationally) vulnerable if you're not prepared. This webinar will take you through the four step process to help your organisation to meet the needs of all its learners, including those with accessibility needs.

This webinar reviews a range of approaches and tools to support teachers and managers to plan engaging effective online teaching and learning. The session recognises the many unknowns professionals in the sector have dealt with in planning for the new academic year but also the opportunities that this affords us all for more effective teaching and learning through hybrid models.