12 November 2013 Martin Cooke, ILT Advisor

Accessibility and Inclusion Forum

statistics on disabilityConnexions Notts (2010) less than 1.5% with a Statement of SEN progress into paid employment

5.2 million people of working age are disabled

Over 2 million have a visual impairment

1.5 million have learning difficulties

over 7 million have literacy problems

More than half of disabled adults of working age are unemployed

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SpringboardTVIt's given them a real taste of what it's like to work in industry. You could potentially have a learner coming to the college and feeling as if they're being employed at SpringboardTV.

You're not coming to college to do a BTec diploma in media, you're coming to the college to work for SpringboardTV and you happen to get that and many other things on your journey through. And at the end you go off to a destination and it feels seamless, it feels like you've had one experience and gained a huge amount on the way through.

College of West Anglia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYFNyUkpHGs

     10.05 Employability Skills

 

10.20 Chesterfield College Foundation Studies

Darren HirstKaren Green

11.10 break  

11.25 Disability Employment Project Margaret Spencer,Derbyshire CC

11.55 Employability resources Martin Cooke

12.10 Ofsted on RARPA Lyn Lall

12.15 RSC update Martin Cooke

1.00 Lunch  

     

Programme (flexible to take account of input, collaboration and networking)

Padlet

http://padlet.com/wall/employ

double click anywhere on the walland start typing

Only 8% of apprenticeships are people who have declared LLDD

Is the Access to Work scheme helpful?

There is ESF funding for those in employment so is it lack of awareness amongst employers?lack of awareness amongst providers?

These and other questions are raised in the SFA survey

employability skills: Employability and Disability

http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/send/changingsen/b00211325/sen-supported-internships for Ls with complex learning difficulties and/or disabilities aged 16 to 24 with a Statement, LD Assessment, or Education, Health and Care Plan not being ‘rolled out’ as such, but available nationally from September 2013 via all FE, 6th F + ISCs Partnership between LA, provider, and employer

Goal: move into paid employment. on-the-job training, study for relevant qualifications

Job coaches support employers:• increasing confidence working with interns • understand business case for employing a diverse workforce• support at the end of the internship for those not offered a paid job Funding: EFA core funding (Elements 1 +2) and top up from LA high needs budget (Element 3)

DWP Access to Work fund for job coach + expenses

employability skills: Supported Internships

LA provider employer

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform37/EmploymentAndSocialMedia.html#.Ul6m3VDkuSo

employability skills: employability and technology

Blended learning could help to meet workplace needs:

• Employability skills• Digital skills• personalisation • Multimedia

Do trainers have the necessary knowledge and skills?Do employers have the necessary knowledge and skills?

Foxwood Academyhttp://www.preparingforadulthood.org.uk/media/286441/foxwood_academy_nottinghamshire.pdfperson-centred transition planning with a focus on employment; a vocational curriculum for disabled young people 14-19.

Abingdon & Witney College: Digital employment skills for 21st century students in FE Digital employability skills for L3 students in FE using video conferencing and webinars. Trained to use a webinar platform and to set up and run 8 webinars with local employers around the theme of ‘What does an employer want from an employee?

Homefield College ebay business and internet caféhttp://www.sipandsurf.co.uk/

Open Badge Adventure at Borders College Mozilla Open Badges ecosystem offers an opportunity to increase student engagement, retention and employability.

Chesterfield CollegeInclusive Learning, Advocacy, Enrichment and Work Experience in Foundation Studies

employability skills: case studies

Using technology to reflect on work experience placements by sharing with other students at Cardonald College Learning for Work Course : full-time course for schoolleavers. Aims to prepare young people with LD for life after school, and transition from school to college or employment. Building skills for life and work , personal awareness, work preparation, IT, job search skills and independent travel.

Boston College E&D Employers Frank Hansonhttp://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/node/21747Working with Holocaust Centre, JustLincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Hospice. Equality and Diversity in the workplace good practice guide.http://goo.gl/nnm0HZ

Henshaws College: media social enterprisehttp://inclusivity.rsc-yh.ac.uk/case_study?id=257transferable employability skills through an accessible and purposeful media social enterprise.

employability skills: case studies

http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/node/16911

Many of these include employment and apprenticeships, and there is a focus on inclusion. Some projects make use of technology.

employability skills: case studies

LSIS SFA Equality and Diversity projects

Disability Confident campaign

July 2013, ‘Disability Confident’, a new 2 yr campaign encouraging businesses to employ more disabled workers, and to take on more apprentices, trainees and interns with disabilities or learning difficulties.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/drive-to-get-more-disabled-people-into-mainstream-jobs

Guidance on employing disabled peoplehttp://goo.gl/YTSa32

technology: print impairments

http://goo.gl/9B8p7e

technology

eportfolios http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/learnersandstudents/infolio

tabletsTesco Hudl £119

free open source toolsXmind http://www.xmind.net/Balabolka http://balabolka-portable.en.softonic.com/

Do you want to make links with employability skills?Badges related to real world skills will be worth having in your eportfolio.

non-traditional skillseg Mozilla’s web literacy standards: not formal education but important skills in today’s online world. No academic qualifications but online learning skills or community involvement recognised.

Wicked competences and soft skillsteamworking, empathy, honesty, integrity, participation, collaboration etc

esafetyDigital footprint

open badges

Learner Progress• achievement• attainment• employability• soft skills• recognition / accreditation of prior learning • modes of assessment• linking to standards• access and inclusion• library / learning resources• MOOCs

Staff DevelopmentCPD, HR, recognition, modes of assessment, linking to standards (GTC etc.), access and inclusion, library / learning resources, MOOCs

open badges

Who is using open badges?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Issuers

Disney/Pixar, Microsoft, NASA, OU

Moodle 2.5http://moodlebadges.com

Site badges - available to users site-wide and related to the site wide activities, like finishing a set of courses.

Course badges - available to users enrolled in the course and related to the activities that happen inside the course.

http://moodlebadges.com/?dlm_download=100-moodle-badges-set

Moodle 2.5 includes Open Badges

Part 1 - http://www.screenr.com/Jf67Part 2 – Setting up the Quiz and Looking at Badges http://www.screenr.com/7v67Part 3 – Making the Badge http://www.screenr.com/hv67Part 4 – Setting up the Backpack http://www.screenr.com/4v67Part 5 – Getting my Badge http://www.screenr.com/Lv67Part 6 – Getting my Badge pt 2 http://www.screenr.com/3v67

Moodle is the first widely-used platform to support badges. Teachers can now design and award their own badges for any users on their sites, using their own criteria. These badges are compatible with the Open Badges standard from Mozilla, and can be used outside Moodle as well.

For more on open badges:http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/jisc-rsc-scotland-open-badges-workshop

open badges in Moodle 2.5

Digital Me esafety badgeshttps://www.makewav.es/story/565569

Open Badges For anyone over 13use on social networks and CV sites using Mozilla Open Badge technology Find out about Open Badges on Makewaves

To take part in the Safe programme and start awarding Safe badges to your students, sign up at www.makewav.es/joinsafe

Open Badge Designerhttps://www.openbadges.me/

http://newsletter.digitalme.co.uk/DigitalMe/BadgeCanvas.pdfBadge Canvas

EventsIn Brief: Assessing effective use of technology for quality and improvement Online 6 Dec, 2013 1.15-2.00 pmhttp://bit.ly/rsc1213inbriefnew self-assessment tool, RAPTA, which links into reporting (SAR) processes, quality improvement plan and the Ofsted CIF

Work Based Learning Forum15 Nov 2013Access Learning, Nottinghamhttp://bit.ly/rsc1113wblStudy Programmes and Traineeships

Preparing for Safer Internet Day and beyondThursday 28 NovemberOnline eventThe 11th Safer Internet Day (SID 2014) is 11 February 2014. Theme for the day: Let's create a better internet together

Jisc FE and Skills funding callhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2013/10/innovation-through-technology

Part of the provision is for Special educational needs (SEN)

extend the SEN system from birth to 25, giving children, young people and their parents greater control and choice in decisions

EHCPspersonal budgets for familiesmulti-agency joined up approach

House of Lords Committee - archive of committee at work

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/

Children and families Bill 2013

Code of Practice LLDD post-16 http://goo.gl/32163K

• EHC plans and collaboration between services • Big focus on transition and right of students to be heard• Greater choice for parents and young ppl• Positive outcomes: employment, HE, etc• Preparation for adulthood• Extends to 19-25 yr olds• Students and Teachers can request an assessment

respond online

Children and families Bill 2013

Fil McIntyre’s presentation on tablet accessibility http://goo.gl/ZmWFTh

tablet accessibility

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_427

xerte 2.1 downloadxerte.org.ukXerte 2.1 is available from the download page. Do you need it? If you are still on 1.9 then most certainly as xerte is now html5 and playable on mobile devices.http://xerte.org.uk

New look and some additional features:

• accessibility button for changing colours• ARIA landmarks (for the blind using screenreaders)• SCORM improvements to track how long spent on each page

xerte accessibility

NADP Student Planner

nadp-uk.org/docs/resources/student-planner.doc

JISC RSC esafety offer

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-safety/

BYOD and Flipped Learning

create iMovie Animoto

evaluate Skype Flipboard

analyze diigo

apply Show me Posterous ExplainEverything

understand Idea sketch

remember iBook Socrative

Resources from Insight eventshttp://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=252

More on digital Bloom athttp://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Sector priorities: some thoughts from EM LPs

Study programmes: changes to funding mean less money per L; less time per qualification. Also reduced funding for tutorial programmes. LPs will increasingly turn to technology to support independent learning

BYOD: ensuring infrastructure can cope; need good connectivity to support independent L(WBL) 24+ loans; money given to employer, rather than provider, so spotlight on value MIS, better use of data – complicated systems need simplifyingGrowth in apprenticeship funding – employability Use of VLEs/cloud technology  LP prioritiesBYOD: moving away from investing in kit - actively encouraging users to bring devices equitable access by improving external connectivity; develop user friendly interface. Technology for independent learning How to balance core offer with bespoke training Expanding e-Learning team to support College strategy to move towards more online delivery

http://goo.gl/fqKcwO

Disability Employment Projecthttp://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/working_for_us/equal_opportunities/disability_employment_project/?VD=dep

to support disabled people to find training, work experience, voluntary work and paid employment

Disability Employment Project G21 Derbyshire County Council County Hall Matlock DE4 3AG

Tel: 01629 532441 or 01629 532159 email disabilityemploymentproject@derbyshire.gov.uk

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/social_health/adult_care_and_wellbeing/disability_support/learning_disabilities/Details.asp?ServiceID=4744

PAVES Paid and Voluntary Employment ServicesMarkham Vale Paves provide voluntary and paid work opportunities for adults with learning disabilities in a wide variety of settings located mainly in Bolsover, NE Derbyshire and Chesterfield. Contact: Jane Abbott jane.abbott@derbyshire.gov.uk

Jisc RSC East Midlands• email: martin.cooke@rsc-em.ac.uk

• RSC Moodle http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/

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