Was a Ufi-funded, small-scale VocTeach pre-pilot built by the Open University in 2020-2021 to demonstrate an online platform where vocational educators could find and share resources for their blended teaching in English and Maths Functional Skills.
As well as a traditional keyword search, VocTeach had qualifications-linked and domain-linked taxonomies, allowing users to filter results for the resources they needed. The platform remembered which resources an individual educator found useful and which topics they had recently accessed to identify resources they might next find useful. Despite Covid-19, which forced the project team to change its initial user evaluation plans, the project initiated the idea of a national aggregator and discovery platform for the vocational education sector by building a proof-of-concept software solution that was highly rated in user evaluations. The project also organised a symposium with over 100 FE practitioners, who expressed their support for the platform idea, and whose ideas and experiences were carried forward to the follow-on project, VocTeach Discovery.
VocTeach Go is our rapid response to a call from FE teachers asking for help in the move to online learning and assessment. The original shift to online at the start of the pandemic happened fast,...
On the 17th December 2020 The Open University’s VocTeach Project hosted the #VocTeach20 Symposium, and here's a chance to watch the replay. The event itself was online and worked as a hub bringing...
The first VocTeach Symposium (#VocTeach20) takes place this week. With the support of Ufi VocTech Trust, the event brings together FE educational experts and practitioners, EdTech experts, awarding...
