Scaling up: Achieving a breakthrough in adult learning with technology

The first report commissioned by Ufi Charitable Trust. It investigates opportunities for and barriers to the application of digital technology to adult learning. It focuses on possible ways to transform the UK’s vocational education and training system, identifying three main priorities for funding by the Ufi Charitable Trust: * increasing the capability of those involved in running the vocational learning system * exploiting networks to bring together learners, learning content and learning professionals * harnessing computers to support individualised and differentiated learning.

Blended Learning Essentials Project reports

Blended Learning Essentials is a free suite of online courses for the Vocational Education and Training sector to promote effective practice and pedagogy in blended learning. The courses were run and supported from 2016 onwards by a consortium of partners funded by Ufi Charitable Trust. The lead partners were the University of Leeds, the UCL Institute of Education, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), and FutureLearn. The Blended Learning Essentials (BLE) courses are for anyone working in further education, skills training, vocational education, workplace learning, lifelong learning or adult education, who wants to learn about and implement blended learning. The project reports cover engagement and marketing work undertaken during this project phase to reach the courses’ key audiences and work undertaken during this project phase to develop and promote the pathways to accreditation available to course participants. These reports are shared by ALT as a project partner on behalf of the BLE Project under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. �