How to develop outreach online

Access Academy Training

The training day will support providers and Uni Connect partnerships to develop and produce online learning materials, identify effective practice in delivery and evaluate impact.

What does the programme include?

The programme includes five sessions. Each session are delivered virtually and in an interactive way. The aim is to construct a coherent course rather than a series of stand-alone sessions.

Key to the course is the delivery by experts but this is also predicated on a community of practice model. This means that the participants shared progress in their work at each session and NEON will collate information on progress. This approach is essential to build the knowledge base here. The group learning approach will allow delegates to develop the best work.

The areas covered throughout the course will include:

• Delivering outreach online – opportunities and challenges: An overview of the key issues to be faced in online delivery looking at the broader theory and practice. Participants will consider the effects moving outreach online has on different groups of learners and reviewed some of the platforms that are available. Delegates will also consider the various safeguarding measures that need to be in place in order to ensure both young people, and higher education professionals, are protected. Delegates will consider model online safeguarding policies, and procedures, that should be in place before taking outreach online.
• Building a blended learning outreach offer: Delegates work to align strategic aims in outreach work with a blended model of face to face and online work. This will enable delegates to consider the most effective ways to deliver certain types of content and how online content can be embedded within future widening access programmes.
• Evaluation and understanding impact: We will review the importance of the evaluation process and why this needs to be considered at the outset of developing online interventions. Throughout the course delegates will look at, and considered, different methods of evaluating online interventions to ensure that practitioners can monitor the take-up by their targeted learners. Delegates also consider how they are able to understand the impact of their activities.
• Producing content and getting it online: Delegates will gain an understanding of pedagogical good practice in online course delivery. They will discuss the pros and cons of various online methods of delivery and how to ensure that learning outcomes can be met.

The first two sessions give delegates the skills needed to immediately start developing and delivering content. The second two sessions considers some of the challenges they might encounter and how these can be addressed. The final session involves getting delegates to critically evaluate the interventions that have been developed and enabled them to revisit key themes of the course in relation to their own outreach online.

The dates of all five sessions are:

• Session 1 – Thursday 8 October
• Session 2 – Friday 9 October
• Session 3 – Thursday 15 October
• Session 4 – Thursday 12 November
• Session 5 – Thursday 19 November

Spaces at this event are strictly limited so early booking is advised.

Regrettably, it is not possible to book on to individual sessions. Delegates must book the complete five session suite.

Price
Membership organisation rate: £495
Non-member organisation rate: £795
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Presenters
Jon Rainford, Digital Learning and Development Officer, University of Bedfordshire

Martin Webster, Operational Consultant, NEON

Feedback previous training:

The interactivity with other professionals and chance to discuss has been invaluable.
The first two days run by Martin and Jon were the best – very well planned, covered good content.
Sharing practice and ideas to ‘borrowed’ ideas to suit your setting or objective.
Being able to chat with others and building a mini network.
Access to some of the resources and also on research around pedagogy. I think overall it was useful time to be reflective and to also gauge if we are doing it right (or not!).
Being able to speak with individuals from different institutions and to share ideas and to collaborate.