occurred in the education and skills sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cogito observed trends adopted within their network to of overcoming the challenges faced by learning providers as they implemented new practises during the pandemic. In the context of Covid-19 the project will research, evaluate and disseminate national/international good practice and promote new approaches to online/blended learning to deliver academic/ technical qualifications, degrees and post-graduate programmes and high and degree apprenticeship programmes. The project will focus primarily on Higher Education but as there is a similar problem facing Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) provision at lower qualification and skill levels, this will form a wider vocational learning context.
Institutional-level solutions will also be presented, ensuring management has the capability to maximise investment in online infrastructure and training programmes. The project will look to demonstrate that innovative learning environments will better equip tutors and teachers in their support of learners who will need skills to learn independently with pedagogical practices better resistant to future shocks to the skills system and economy. During Covid-19 our partners observed those institutions whose learners grabbed the opportunity to accelerate their learning online, while others did not. We can learn from this.
The projects key objectives are:
• Identifying the scale of the problem
• Fostering capacity building of teachers and institutions
• Promoting effective use of technology practises
• Fostering inclusiveness in the virtual classroom, involving students with additional communication needs, such as those with physical or hearing impairments or learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and others.
• Developing pedagogy, online curriculum, delivery models and learning materials
• Creating guidance in the form of institutional level roadmaps to deliver online infrastructure upgrades and training