The SFA just keeps giving. Nearly 300 colleges unexpectedly receive £23 million to be spent before August 2012.
Colleges are sharing an additional £23m in Discretionary Learner Support (DLS) funding, which will need to be spent before the end of this academic year. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has revealed that 284 providers, primarily FE colleges, were given the additional funding last month ahead of their profile payment in April. The extra in-year allocations are the latest in a series of SFA giveaways, which include redundancy packages, the Growth and Innovation Fund and additional funding to target NEETs, reported by FE Week last November. A spokesperson for the SFA told FE Week: “The additional funds were distributed to those providers who reported in their February mid-year returns that they expected their end of year performance to be 97 per cent or above.”
The 21st century pedagogy teachers should be aware of. Interpersonal learning , personalized learning, second life learning , 3d learning, collaborative learning and virtual learning , these are just some of the few buzz words you would be be reading so often in today’s educational literature.
Things have changed , old methods and pedagogies are no longer relevant. Content is a tyrant... Project Glass: One day... Our Tutors. Virtual School Head and Private Tutoring Pilots. Gateshead is one of only 11 authorities nationally to have successfully bid to participate in the DCSF funded virtual school head pilot.
It is also one of only four authorities nationally to be included in the accompanying private tutoring scheme funded by HSBC. The aim of the pilots is to test out proposals included in the Government Green Paper Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care. Virtual School Head The virtual school head will be tasked with driving up standards in the education of children in care. 4 Mobile Trends to Watch. Jessica Richards | April 17, 2012 | 1 Comment.
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Scenario-based design. Chris Fowler The use of the term Scenarios has a long history.
It originated from the Theatre and is frequently spoken of in a military context. It also has been used to support corporate planning and decision making. More recently it has become common parlance in a whole range of e-learning system design activities. Designers speak of scenarios in Learning Design, system modelling, interaction design and evaluation, and user needs analysis. Chris described a particular technique, Scenario-based User Needs Analysis or SUNA, developed at BT and the . Answering the Big Question on New Technology in Schools: Does It Work? (Part 1.
Developers see Google as Bigger Growth Area than Facebook. Facebook may have been a hunting ground last year for developers expanding their social mobile programs, but their sights are set on growing with Google in 2012, a new study suggests.
According to a new report by mobile platform company Appcelerator and analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC), developers are more interested in using Google products such as Google+, search, Gmail and the Android Market to implement their social strategies. Bring your own device to be piloted at Cambridgeshire council. Cambridgeshire county council is to launch a bring your own device (BYOD) pilot, which will allow 50 employees to access corporate resources on their own devices.
The local authority has restricted the BYOD trial to Android and Apple products to give its staff an alternative to GCSx compliant BlackBerrys. According to the council, the aim is to replicate what a person can currently access if they were issued with a BlackBerry. Plugged into learning: Computers help students advance. Technology has grown by leaps and bounds, yet are computers helping students progress in their learning?
Absolutely, says a 40-year retrospective on the impact of technology in classrooms. Published in the journal Review of Educational Research, the findings gathered by Concordia University researchers suggest that technology delivers content and supports student achievement. Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers. iPad Apps and Bloom’s Taxonomy I felt it was worthwhile to update the Top Post (over 25,000 views) on Langwitches: Bloom’s Taxonomy for iPads I have added links to each app represented on the visual.
Remember: Exhibit memory of previously-learned materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers. describenamefindnamelisttell Suggested apps: The history of distance learning [Infographic] The world of snail-mail, shorthand typing and correspondence courses is a far cry from today's range of certified online courses, Skype language lessons and mobile app-based education. Distance learning once meant completing assignments via post, or homework-based lessons in conjunction with weekly or monthly seminars.
Now, exams can be taken online, students can communicate effectively through online platforms, and lab sessions can be attended through live streaming. MIT is one of the latest course providers to offer online alternatives, and the concept of digital learning has expanded across the globe -- taking root more recently in China. Research in Learning Technology. The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in Education 2012. Khan Academy Is Not The Progressive Model You Are Looking For.