Resources: College collaboration fund (CCF)
Updated 12 January 2022
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Mental health and wellbeing
Resource: Let’s chat.
Developed by: Weston College and Gateshead College.
Description: For individual, one-to-one and group use. Includes resources on social isolation, stress, resilience, sleep, anxiety, loneliness, self-esteem, nutrition, physical activity and uncertainty.
Resource: Coaching and Mentoring Health and Wellbeing Toolkit
Developed by: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, Harrow and Uxbridge College, West Thames College, The Windsor Forest Colleges Group, Brooklands College.
Description: To provide information and guidance in relation to the coaching and mentoring process and includes resources in relation to embedding health and wellbeing within coaching and mentoring. The toolkit provides techniques, tips and templates that can be used or adapted as required.
Remote education
A catalogue of digital curriculum content for FE and schools, which includes these CCF resources, can be viewed grouped by subject and level via the get help with remote education pages.
Resource: Vocational Resource Bank
Developed by: Heart of Worcestershire, Grimsby Institute (TEC Partnership) and East Durham.
Description: Remote education resources, including maths, English, science, animal care, horticulture, carpentry, health and social care, construction, engineering, art, photography, public services, childcare, employability, business, painting and decorating, drone use, childcare, interview preparation, prevent and e-safety.
Resource: Remote and blended learning good practice: FE colleges.
Included: case studies from Weston College, London South East Colleges, Manchester College and Walsall College.
Description: Find out about different approaches FE providers took to delivering remote and blended learning during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This resource documents aspects of colleges’ remote and blended learning practice that may be of interest to other FE providers.
Resource: Preparing for and embedding English and maths into a virtual learning environment.
Developed by: Lincoln College, Grimsby Institute, DN Colleges Group, Grantham College, Boston College and New College Stamford.
Description: Short online course relating to either digital and study skills, literacy or numeracy. On each page, staff can view, access or download the resource. Courses are built in Rise with final end assessments embedded from Storeyline or H5p, making them usable within any virtual learning environment.
Resource: Stockton Riverside College - Access to Health resources.
Developed by: Darlington College, Middlesbrough College, Education Training Collective, Hartlepool College and Northern School of Art.
Description: A range of short explainer videos designed for use with Access to Health students and will also be applicable to other health and social care courses. Topics cover communication, professionalism, values, safeguarding, academic writing and legislation.
Resource: Sports and Public Services curriculum resources.
Developed by: Darlington College, Middlesbrough College, Education Training Collective, Hartlepool College and Northern School of Art.
Description: A range of resources for the sports and public services curriculum areas, as well as several resources that can be used by all subject areas. This site brings those resources together in an accessible format for our colleagues in FE and the wider education sector to access.
Resource: The Construct: Digital Platform.
Developed by: Darlington College, Middlesbrough College, Education Training Collective, Hartlepool College and Northern School of Art.
Description: A online platform for students and staff. It offers a range of resources and includes a professional profile builder interface, short drone piloting course, Minecraft: Education Edition resources, Creatabase learning resource library, BadgeIT - Essential Digital Skills Building programme.
Resource: Venn Colleges - resource hub
Developed by: Wilberforce Sixth Form College, Franklin Sixth Form College, John Leggott College, Scarborough Sixth Form College, Wyke Sixth Form College.
Description: A range of digital learning resources that were built collaboratively through sharing good practice and innovation. Venn College staff produced the materials to offer a high standard of quality learning materials to enhance your digital learning experience. Subjects at either GCSE, A Level or Level 3 include criminology, physical education, health and social care, chemistry, English, maths, business, psychology, physics, law, metacognition, sport and biology.
Resources: CCF E-learning programme
Developed by: Fareham College, Highbury College, Havant and South Downs College, working in collaboration with Eidos Consulting
Description: A series of 30 brand-new e-learning resources for Engineering, Health and Social Care and Childcare curriculum areas via its website. Curriculum specialists from a variety of disciplines have collaborated to create a range of professional and technical high-quality blended learning resources to support teachers and level 3 students with online learning in these curriculum areas.
Resource: Welcome to Digital Campus
Developed by: Truro and Penwith College, South Devon College, Petroc
Description: Digital Campus is a virtual learning environment (VLE) that allows teachers and students to communicate online. Teachers can build, manage, and deliver courses both in-class and online and incorporate rich, interactive content. Coursework can be uploaded, assessed, and graded entirely online, incorporating feedback. Anyone can self-enrol on Digital Campus and access the courses on any internet-enabled device, communicate and collaborate with their teachers and peers and take control of their learning.
Resource: Cirencester College
Developed by: Cirencester College, Brockenhurst College, Henley College, PETROC College, and Strode College
Description: Resources on themes from best use of technology, tutorial support and teacher networking, to advice and guidance for parents on how to support young people, and reassurance for new students new to FE.
Resource: Evaluation of strategies for online learning implementation in FE
Developed by: Plumpton College, Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) and East Kent College Group (EKC Group)
Description: To respond to the impact of increased online learning, these 3 institutions formed a partnership led by Plumpton College and initiated a research and development project to rapidly develop and sustain staff confidence and capability in the effective use of platforms, development of content for active online learning and delivery of structured live lessons online.
Resources: Educational technology reference guide, MS Teams: a guide for practitioners and MS Teams: a guide for learners
Developed by: Lincoln College, Grimsby Institute, DN Colleges Group, Grantham College, Boston College, New College Stamford.
Description: The educational technology reference guide helps you to review the key digital tools that you may like to use to facilitate engaging blended learning. MS Teams guide resources are created through Articulate Rise 360 and guide practitioners and learners through integrating MS Teams into remote education.
Resource: CCF - Northern School of Art
Developed by: Darlington College, Middlesbrough College, Education Training Collective, Hartlepool College and The Northern School of Art.
Description: The Northern School of Art presents videos covering a wide range of skills across art and design, stock imagery representing art and design and alternative software lists, including free software and mobile alternatives for use in a creative context.
Staff development
Resource: GMC HQ - Greater Manchester Colleges Group Digital and Blended Learning Project.
Developed by: Greater Manchester Colleges Group – LTE Group (Manchester College), Bolton College, Bury College, Hopwood Hall College, Oldham College, Salford College, Tameside College, Trafford College Group, Wigan and Leigh College.
Description: Greater Manchester Colleges (GMC) HQ is a collaborative site where colleagues share ideas, resources and their own emergent good practice with a focus on improving the quality of education. Content is created and collated by Digital and Blended Learning Champions, located in each partner college. Resources are open access and support a range of approaches from remote or hybrid learning to the planning and sequencing of blended learning.
Resource: Synchronous learning training packages.
Developed by: Walsall College, Birmingham Metropolitan College, National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure, South Staffordshire College with support from Colleges West Midlands group and Blended Learning Consortium.
Description: This course is for teachers and offers a series of teaching exemplars, guidance and a teacher’s toolkit that will raise the quality of synchronous (real-time) remote teaching and learning lessons. The interactive CPD resources cover 5 main themes: planning and preparing remote learning sessions; strategies to engage and motivate learners online; techniques to assess online learner progress; supporting students with learning difficulties and disabilities; and setting group tasks and making the most of collaboration methods.
Resource: Digital Construction CPD Platform.
Developed by: Middlesbrough College, working in partnership with Darlington College, Education Training Collective, Hartlepool College and The Northern School of Art.
Description: The Digital Construction CPD platform aims to help staff manage their digital upskilling. It provides over 170 instantly accessible resources including reports, videos, suggestions and advice snippets from all over the education sector and beyond.
Resource: DN Digital Skills.
Developed by: Lincoln College, Grimsby Institute, DN Colleges Group, Grantham College, Boston College, New College Stamford.
Description: Tools and guides for teachers on how different digital content and resources can be integrated to support remote and blended delivery. The site includes guides on integrating various programmes into remote education including MS Team, Office 365, Blended Learning Consortium Teacher Collection, Wakelet Teacher Collection, Flipgrip, MS Form and many more.
Resource: Cumbria Colleges Collaboration Fund, Kendal College
Developed by: Kendal College, Furness College, Lakes College, Carlisle College and Newton Rigg College
Description: All the Cumbrian CCF projects focussed on a different aspect of IT and blended learning, which when put together, formed a package of activity to produce a whole college strategic approach to implementing blended learning.
Each colleges’ project has developed resources for developing and implementing staff and student activities in digital technologies to aid participation and delivery of lessons online. The videos and information contained within this site are designed to support digital upskilling among staff and students.
Work experience
Resource: Hosted as part of Get help with remote education on GOV.UK.
Developed by: Wiltshire College and East Sussex College Group.
Description: These digital resources are for use in synchronous or asynchronous delivery to support students in engaging with specific practical subjects while colleges are restricted under lockdown conditions. Subjects include barbering and animal care, travel and tourism, health and social care and money matters.
Apprenticeships
Resource: #BlendedApprentice
Developed by: Windsor Forest Colleges Group and Berkshire College of Agriculture
Description: Different approaches to meet the challenges of delivering apprenticeships during the COVID-19 pandemic which will be of interest to our colleagues in FE and the wider education sector in how apprenticeship delivery may develop to incorporate more online and blended elements. Resources include a collection demonstration videos, augmented reality resources and staff reflections.
Safeguarding
Resource: Examples of safeguarding procedures for further education from Newcastle and Stafford College Group - Safeguarding procedure September 2020 and Shrewsbury Colleges Group
Developed by: Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group (NSCG) and Shrewsbury Colleges Group (SCG).
Description: CCF enabled NSCG to provide support to SCG, using a peer review process, to implement improvements to safeguarding and sharing best practice.
Student journey, progression and transition support
Resource: Enhancing the student experience
Developed by: DN Colleges Group and The Sheffield College
Description: The project mapped out the administrative processes behind the student journey. Resources include specifications and user journeys to inform future digital solutions gap analysis or procurement requirements.
Settings
Resource: East Sussex College strategy: virtual engagement platform
Developed by: London South East Colleges and East Sussex College Group
Description: This strategy outlines East Sussex College’s ambitious strategic intentions for the next phase of their journey ready for broad and deep discussions with colleagues, students, parents and carers, employers, strategic partners, and local community leaders. It includes a ‘Virtual Town Hall’ developed by East Sussex College Group to gather feedback on their 3 year strategic plan. This was an output of the CCF funded #ChangeMakers programme in collaboration with London South East Colleges (LSEC).
Finance and resource management
Resource: Exemplar assets
Developed by: East Kent College Group (EKC Group), Morley College, MidKent College and North Kent College
Description: A range of exemplar assets and reports which include estates utilisation, average class size, course viability, staff utilisation and funding optimisation.