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Online Workshops

We currently have a special offer on online workshops - two linked half day workshops for the price of one

Workshops are delivered through a virtual classroom, Instant Presenter and some will be supported through the NIACE learning platform.

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Session 1 of 2: Video

This three hour workshop is ideal for practitioners with little or no experience of using video in their teaching and learning. This will be a very practical workshop in which you will need access to a digital video camera in order to capture a short video that you will then be able to use during the session.

The workshop will:

  • provide you with hints and tips for shooting video
  • show you how you can edit the video using Windows Movie Maker
  • explore challenges teachers face when using video in order to find solutions. The challenges we will explore include - permissions, file formats, file sizes, storage and embedding a video into their learning platform.

Session 2 of 2: The digital camera

Images are so important in teaching and learning, whatever your subject area, they can be used in so many ways including to stimulate discussion, to show steps in an activity and to capture evidence of learning. This three hour workshop is ideal for those with little or no experience of using a digital camera with learners.

This workshop will:

  • explore ways in which digital images can be used in teaching and learning
  • show you how to use freely available tools to edit your photographs
  • show you how to capture screen shots (whole or part) on your computer
  • show you how to reduce the file size of your images for the purpose of email, use in presentations or to upload onto a learning platform.
  • explain what is meant by 'creative commons' and show you tools that you can use to find photographs that can be used in teaching and learning.

Find more information, current dates and how to book here.

Learning with Technologies in Informal Adult Community Learning (IACL)

Session 1 of 2: Learning with Technologies in IACL

Do you work with learners in an Informal Adult Community Learning (IACL) situation? Whether you work in a museum or library, run a club such as a book club or a group such as an environmental project group, you will be looking for new ways to attract new people and to explore ways of delivering learning in different ways.

This three hour workshop will explore some tools that are freely available that could help you deliver learning either in the classroom or via the internet. You will have the opportunity to try out some of the tools during the workshop, as well as being given ideas to adapt and use with your learners.

The workshop will:

  • explore ways of using social networks to attract new learners
  • explore tools that can help you deliver learning in the classroom
  • explore tools including virtual classrooms and virtual learning environments that can help you deliver learning online
  • provide an opportunity to share current practice with others involved in informal adult community learning.

Session 2 of 2: Supporting with Technologies in IACL

When working in community learning situations such as clubs or groups, learners often want to continue their discussions or the work they are involved with outside the sessions that you are providing. Most of us want to encourage this but do not necessarily have the time to take a lead.

The workshop will explore how you can support your learners to enable them to do this. The workshop will explore some tools that are freely available to help support learning. You will have the opportunity to try out some of the tools during the workshop, as well as being given ideas to adapt and use with your learners.

The workshop will:

  • explore tools that will enable learners to continue discussions outside the classroom
  • explore tools that will enable learners to continue learning
  • provide an opportunity to discuss ways learners can be encouraged to work collaboratively and provide peer support.

Find more information, current dates and how to book here.

Numeracy for fun

Session 1 of 2: Numeracy for fun

What do your numeracy resources currently look like? Are they interactive? Do they provide opportunities for differentiation? Do you rely on the materials made by others even if they don't do exactly what you want them to do? This three hour online workshop will enable you to create your own engaging and interactive numeracy resources.

Discover ways that you can use out Microsoft Office applications and other widely available content creation tools to make your own interactive resources. Spreadsheets software is often used when delivering sessions on budgets and data handling but it can be used to create self assessment resources that provide instant feedback to the learner, this workshop will show you how.

The workshop will:

  • explore some tools that you can use to create interactive resources
  • raise your awareness of the types of resources you can produce
  • give you the opportunity to discuss how these resources of your own
  • provide an opportunity to discuss how these resources could be adapted for use with your own learner groups.

Session 2 of 2: Even more Numeracy for fun

A three hour online workshop that will show you how to make effective use of audio and video with numeracy learners. One of the difficulties adult learners say they with learning maths in schools was that they could not see how it was relevant to their lives. The use of audio and video can really help to make numeracy relevant.

How do you teach numeracy sessions? Do you demonstrate how to do things, such as working out the discounts given in shops? Do learners model what they do to perform calculations to each other?

The session will explore ways in which you can capture moments like these to create learning resources and guides that your learners can access between sessions. This workshop will:

  • explore ways in which audio and video can be used in teaching and learning
  • explore tools what will enable you to create and edit audo files
  • explore different ways of capturing 'numeracy moments' into video files
  • show you how to incorporate these clips into other resources.

Find more information, current dates and how to book here.

Online Courses

Making More of your Online Course

A 6 week online course, using a popular open-source learning platform, ideal for practitioners who are looking to use their learning platform (VLE) as more than a simple repository for resources, in order to make the most of the tools available to ensure that the learner has an interactive multimedia rich experience. The course consists of five modules:

Module 1: Look and Feel - Week 1 explores the learning environment; the look and feel of the course and its importance to the learner.

Module 2: Meeting the Learners' Needs - Weeks 2 and 3 explore how the course materials can be presented in ways that meet the needs of the learner. An online learning environment provides the opportunity to present learning materials in different formats for our learners, we can use audio and video as an alternative to text based materials. We can create interactive learning objects that allow our learners to self study and interactive assessment materials that provide immediate feedback. The course materials which are stored online can support the delivery of class based sessions. They can provide self study materials or an opportunity for a learner to revisit materials as often as required.

Module 3: Engaging Learners - Week 4 explores the ways in which tools available both inside virtual learning environments and on the Internet can be used to engage learners in collaborative activities.

Module 4: Supporting Learners - Week 5 explores how learners can be supported when learning online using tools available both inside their virtual learning environment and on the Internet.

Module 5: Reflecting and Recording - Week 6 explores ways in which learners can be encouraged to reflect on their learning experience and for their progress and achievement to be captured.

Apply for Making More of your Online Course

 

Exploring Successful Learning Online

A 6-week blended course ideal for people who have yet to experience online learning or the use of a virtual learning environment, This course aims to support those wishing to explore some of the potential uses of online and blended learning within their own delivery.

The course consists of two face-to-face days at the beginning and end of the course and three modules:

  • Module 1: Exploring online learning - identifies and explores effective methods of delivering online and blended learning
  • Module 2: Advantages and disadvantages of using online collaborative activities - provides participants with the opportunity to explore the uses of online collaboration
  • Module 3: Tools for online learning - offers participants the opportunity to identify and use tools and skills that can be used to develop and deliver online learning

 

Application of Online Learning

A 12-week online course which aims to support those working in post-16 education who wish to use online learning and online methods within their learning provision. Participants gain the practical experience of being part of an online community, and explore the skills and knowledge required to create their own online courses.

The course consists of five modules:

  • Module 1: Understand e-learning (introductory module) - explores the pedagogy and principles of e-learning and online learning
  • Module 2: Widening participation - explores widening participation by incorporating e-learning and online learning into participants' delivery, and associated issues such as accessibility and outreach provision
  • Module 3: Developing online programmes - explores the conversion of face-to-face courses to blended/online courses, useful software and support mechanisms
  • Module 4: Personalised online support - explores effective online learner support, the role of online facilitation, the use of communication tools and how to manage an online community
  • Module 5: Evaluation and assessment - explores a range of evaluation methodology for face-to-face, blended and online courses, and provides participants with the opportunity to evaluate their own blended/online learning experience

Modules 1 and 5 are compulsory and participants choose one optional module from modules 2, 3 or 4.

 

To register your interest for any future courses, contact events@niace.org.uk

If you are an organisation with particular requirements and wish to offer your staff the opportunity to participate in the courses at a negotiated time at agreed rates, we will be happy to discuss your requirements and provide a tailored package.