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Blended Learning Consortium

Peter KilcoyneILT Director

Heart of Worcestershire [email protected]


Why Blended Learning?

• Independent learning

• Digital literacy• Flexibility• Efficiency


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- FEHow it works

• Open democratic partnership led by HOW College with democratic decision making on content developed

• Annual membership fee of £5K, 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, souce files and

later updates


Progress to date• 94 Colleges have joined. This is over 40% of all UK

Colleges• Six rounds of content development completed or

underway. Making up over 1200 hours in 38 subject areas.

• Members get all content plus source files – can repurpose and adapt.

• 300 hours of existing college content being shared• Free membership to Specialist Colleges who support

improving accessibility


About the Content• Interactive learning objects• Any device and platform• Thirty one hour objects per subject• Formative assessments in all• HLTL5 and Scorm• Source files provided.

Customisable • Not specification specific• Stand alone (can be used in any

order)



Voting Consultation Curriculum writing Editing E-learning

productionQA & user

testing

Development process


90 colleges 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 member colleges

“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


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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 Development2015/2016


First round of development• Digital Literacy L2• Employability L2• Employability L3• English L2• Engineering L2• Engineering L3• Health and Safety in

Social Care L2


Second round of development• British Values Prevent• Health and Social Care L3• Business Studies L3• Sports L2• Sports L3• E-safety – Anti Bullying• Beauty L3• Travel and Tourism L2• Enterprise L2


Third Round of Development• Study Skills• Public Services L2• Hair and Beauty L2• Travel and Tourism L3• Early Years Childcare L3• Interview Preparation• Maths Contextualised for Vocational Areas• Hospitality and Catering (L2)• Hospitality and Catering (L3)• Health and Care (L2)


Content Development2016/2017

Higher Specification


Phase 1

• Plumbing L2• Maths, FS L2• Site Carpentry and Joinery L2• Numeracy L3• Public Services L3• Brickwork L2


Video Content

• Sport• Construction• Public Services• Motor Vehicle


Phase 2

• Computing L3• Numeracy L1• Sport L3• Digital Technologies L3• IT/Software Development L3• Art and Design L2


Video Content

• Sport L3• Engineering L3• Maths L2


Content upgrades and refresh

• New colleges join can get previous years content by “back paying”

• 14 out of 16 who have joined this year have done this already

• Will be used to refresh and possibly upgrade content as and when needed


The power of the consortiumDigital Economics or buns vs bytes

• Each college getting £435K plus of content development for £5K

• Leveraged efficiency saving of £430K per college

• £430K x 87 makes £37.41M efficiency per year saving across the consortium colleges in year 2

• This will grow as more join• Year 1, 68 Colleges £22.8M


The power of the consortiumCollective 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 Skills2Learn resources• 20% off Luminic Slate learning platform• Virtual College• £15K 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, Australian and

South African BLCs?


International BLCs sharing content?


Any Questions?

For more info [email protected]

http://blc-fe.org/

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