All Together Now

For policy makers, FE professionals and providers to discuss the implications and potential of new technologies and media to enrich FE.

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You are invited to join a Twitter experiment!

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Kevin Brennan, chats with FE News at Licensed to Skill

Skills Minister, Kevin Brennan chats with www.FEnews.co.uk at the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils conference on the future skills of the UK

February 8

Welcome to All Together Now

Welcome to All Together Now, a community about the future of learning across the FE and Skills sector. This site already hosts active discussion groups, a lot of interesting content and many challenging opinions and suggestions. It was originally set up by Becta and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills to support an event, but from April 2010, these organisations have offered the community to its members to continue to run if they choose to do so.

Towards a 2020 Vision

We have now put together some simple statements on where things could be heading towards 2020 and how that compares with evidence of where the sector is overall at the moment. They cover five main areas:

- Content and digital resources
- Blogosphere, social media, web 2
- Provider and workforce capability
- Learner experience
- Employers

Some of us will be starting up specific groups on each of these in the next few days. Some questions we hope to answer include:

•Do you agree with the aspects of a 2020 vision? What would you see differently? Where would you go further? •Do you recognise the 2009 limitations? What would you add or change? • What key actions need to be taken, or barriers removed, to accelerate progress towards a 2020 vision?

FE Vision Development

View more presentations from becta_feandskills.

Have your say in the 2020 group here.

We will run the discussion over the next two months, gathering your views, feeding these back to the Minister and using them to develop our policy making.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Stuart Edwards, BIS

Videos

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO MORE ABOUT HIBERNIA COLLEGE AS AN EXEMPLAR IN ONLINE LEARNING?

Started by Peter O'Sullivan Nov. 27, 2009.

New £20m online learning innovation fund & taskforce launched 3 Replies

Started by Steph Gray. Last reply by Paul Bacsich Jul. 28, 2009.

Generator & Colleges

Started by John Gray Jul. 18, 2009.

How do we make successful models available across the sector?

Started by Peter Rees Jones Jul. 3, 2009.

Blog Posts

You are invited to join a Twitter experiment!

As you may be aware, I am the Senior Policy Advisor for Technology Enhanced Learning at Lifelong Learning UK. Lifelong Learning UK is the sector skills council for learning professionals across the whole lifelong learning sector. We develop professional standards and qualification frameworks and advise on career pathways and workforce development for all people working in this sector.

In my role I’m becoming increasingly interested in the impact of new technologies on the nature of learning and… Continue

Posted by Bryony Taylor on February 15, 2010 at 12:16pm

Event: - Developing the Microsoft Digital Skills for Citizens Programme - 30th September

A free one-day workshop which will allow you to be in at the beginning of an exciting national initiative which is making recycled computers available to people on low-incomes.

You will also hear about "Britain Works", Microsoft's £45 million programme which aims to get 500,000 people back to work.

The event will take place:

10am to 3:30pm

Wednesday 30th September 2009

at Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH.

Details of the venue can be found here:… Continue

Posted by John Popham on September 23, 2009 at 10:20pm

How do we make the online world less intimidating?

I was struck today by something a friend said to me today about finding the idea of posting on a social network intimidating. I realised that it is a rather intimidating thing to do, to write a blog, comment on a post or even tweet for the first time.

I suppose that joining any kind of online community/social network isn’t altogether different from joining an adult education class or enrolling at a college or university. Many people find this really intimidating, particularly if they have had a… Continue

Posted by Bryony Taylor on August 21, 2009 at 5:00pm

Event: Using ICT to Engage with NEET Young People

Digital 20/20 presents "Using ICT to Engage with NEET Young People"

Registrations are now being accepted for this free event for NEETs practitioners.

Date: Tuesday, 16th June 2009, 10am - 3:30pm

Venue: Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield

Register here

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Posted by John Popham on May 25, 2009 at 7:40pm

Home/School links crucial for developing adult learners

Coming from a very poor area where there is about a 70% unemployment rate, the first contact that the adults have with learning after they have left school is with the local children's centre or the primary school.

All schools must examine how they are working with parents in light of the recent government announcement that by September 2010 all primary, and September 2012 all secondary, schools will be required to offer parents real-tim… Continue

Posted by Tim on May 13, 2009 at 2:30pm