Blend IT
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Blend IT is a national partnership project from the BLC, Transform Education and Edtech UK that builds capacity, skills and capabilities across education to deliver blended learning for recovery and key subjects.
Why Blended Learning?
Blended learning is an approach to curriculum delivery where face to face teaching is combined with planned and structured online resources, activities and assessments.
Incorporating blended learning into your school brings a number of advantages to the students, teachers and organisation; flexibility and efficiency savings for the school, saving time for teachers and for students by designing a rich and engaging learning experience that develops curriculum strengths, independent learning, assessment tools and supports face to face teaching.
Developing Blended Learning models can enhance partnerships with parents. Parents could be given access to view blended learning courses and support pupil progress building on that vital school / parent relationship that has deepened during lockdown.
Blend IT launches national pilot project and call for nomination
Work with us to:
- Use what you may have developed during lockdown to best effect
- Develop skills and capabilities across staff teams
- Build capacity within your own institution
- Work with others to use imagination, learning design and rich curriculum
- Invest in a proven collaborative national project
Who are we?
Blend IT is a partnership project between the BLC, Edtech UK and Transform Education.
The Blended Learning Consortium
The Blended Learning Consortium, created by Heart of Worcestershire College in 2014 and has since grown to be the largest EdTech Consortium in the FE sector, creating and disseminating high quality blended learning resources to over 150 member colleges. The College is renowned for pioneering work in education technology and was named an EdTech Demonstrator College by the Department for Education in 2020. Over the last 12 months, EdTech Specialists at HoW College have trained and supported over 900 members of staff in schools and colleges across the country.
Edtech UK
The Education Foundation and Edtech UK work to develop edtech to support teaching and learning across education. Through its advisory work, series of policy reports and the Edtech 50 the foundation celebrates good practice and shares what works with teachers and leaders. The Foundation most recently led the Department for Education’s Edtech Demonstrator Programme, convening the national network of over fifty edtech demonstrator schools and colleges.
Transform Education
Transform Education has an established expertise in blended learning delivery. The partnership have won a number of prestigious awards for their work including TES, EDTech50, Pearsons and IMS Global Impact.
The Blend IT offer
The Blend IT national project works with schools to develop and make best use of their own resources, led by their own teachers to impact and support their own students.
- Coaching and CPD for Senior Leaders and Teachers delivered through blended approaches and small group coaching sessions.
- Access to high quality online interactive resources in maths, English, Science and PSHE to edit, focus and use in your own school setting from the BLC resources that are suitable to your setting.
- Membership of a collaborative partnership project and network of schools working together to share best practice and learning resources.
National project | Call for nomination | Would you like to work with us?
Blend IT is recruiting schools, groups of schools, maintained or academies to be part of this first national project. Schools must have a commitment to exploring the potential benefits of blended learning in key areas, interest in developing some of the key lessons from lockdown and a belief in collaborative working.
The work of the BLC shows that an ‘invest to save’ model delivers in terms of organisational efficiency, teacher workload and consolidating learning for pupils.
If you would like to be part of this national pilot programme, please email us outlining your interest, potential subject area or whole school approach that you would like to explore:
What we offer
Dedicated materials for use by staff teams and SLT to understand, integrate and produce Blended Learning materials in priority areas for key groups of pupils ( ranging from ‘recovery’ to Maths, English, Science and PSHE).
Coaching and CPD for Senior Leaders and Teachers delivered through blended approaches and small group coaching sessions.
What would be your role as a participant?
An interest and commitment to exploring the potential benefits of blended learning in key areas.
Building on the key lessons of remote teaching and learning to develop an incremental approach to blended learning in your school.
Contribution to enable the use of BLC material and coaching resources.
A belief in collaborative working, coaching and development of staff teams.