Scouting for new approaches to learning
18 Apr 2011 9:29am
The NAC Group has joined forces with local company, Innovation Scout, to research and develop new ways of engaging unemployed people in the learning process.
“Many of our learners are on benefit”, explains Paul Robson, MD of the NAC Group, “and are restricted to 16 hours per week at our Green Collar training centres. We are looking at ways in which we can reinforce and supplement their learning during the remainder of the week.”
The intention is to use a range of communications technologies to maintain contact with the learners. Mobile phone technology, for example, could be used to deliver text, graphic and video messages and obtain feedback from the learner. New apps could be developed. This will enable the NAC Group to provide complementary learning, to reinforce the lessons learned during earlier workshop sessions and to test people’s knowledge.
“We hope”, says Paul, “to be able to gather feedback from the learners, and use it to enhance the portfolio of evidence that they will need to complete in order to obtain a qualification. We want to harness 21st Century technology to make the learning process more flexible and more fun.”