PERSONALISED TEACHING & LEARNING IN FURTHER EDUCATION

Our world is changing… fast... and in this progressive world of online learning; our expectations of how we access our work and connect to the people around us are changing as well.

With smart phones, tablet technology and online learning becoming ever more prevalent in our college environments, students expect a more personalised, engaging and instant response to their work.

In an environment of financial challenge, with a more demanding curriculum and rigorous inspection standards, additional strain is being

placed upon busy tutors, who are already working at capacity. As a result productivity is affected and student achievement can decline.

At the heart of the teaching and learning process, itslearning addresses these challenges, providing solutions to facilitate the learning journey from planning to assessment. This involves all key stakeholders, working across all devices, all day, every day.

Ignite Your LearningA single end-to-end teaching and learning platform, more than 7 million active users worldwide trust itslearning to provide a streamlined, user-friendly learning enviroment. itslearning consolidates stand-alone systems and content resources, enabling tutors to

more easily manage their curriculum. More importantly, we provide educators with the flexibility and time savings needed to create truly personalised learning experiences that place students at the heart of learning.

What kind of platform is itslearning?

Centralised

Curriculum content, management tools, lesson plans, learning objectives, student progress plans, learner reports and communication tools are all located in the same platform – with only one login to remember.

Easy-to-use

Curriculum planning tools streamline and facilitate course development for FE tutors. These include course templates, online lesson planners and the ability to align content to learning objectives. As a cloud-based platform, available 24/7, students and tutors can access itslearning anytime, anywhere from any device.

Personal

With flexible feedback options and the ability for students to demonstrate achievement in the way they choose, tutors can increase motivation and engagement by empowering students to design learning experiences that are tailored, personalised and meaningful to them.

Engaging

With itslearning, students can reflect upon and take ownership of their learning through blogs, discussion boards and ePortfolios. Students can also track their progress with Individual Learning Plans (ILPs), while tutors and mentors can monitor progress via personal dashboards.

Drawing on our experience of working with educators all over the world, we have developed itslearning to provide what is most important to you: seamlessly integrated tools for better education, elevating tutor efficiency and facilitating student success.

Curriculum Learning

Communication & Collaboration

Personalisation

Professional Learning

itslearning: At the heart of... itslearning provides the ability to plan and deliver online courses and track student progress. With itslearning, everyone in your college can work, collaborate and communicate together – all in one, simple interface that works well on almost any device – whether it’s a tablet, smartphone, laptop or PC.

Curriculum: Plan, align and manage teaching and learning resources without logging into separate systems. A central library brings together resources from publishers, the itslearning online community and your own staff, minimising the number of platforms that tutors and students have to access. Save time when developing your learning curriculum by sharing course templates, resources and lesson plans online, promoting best practice and encouraging staff collaboration.

Learning: Deliver engaging lessons while ensuring that resources, assessments and activities are aligned to learning objectives. Provide voice and choice, personalisation and facilitate collaboration through discussion boards and blogs. Help students progress by giving concrete, actionable feedback using assessment criteria attached to learning objectives. Finally, give tutors the tools to easily plan, find resources and communicate with learners.

Communication and Collaboration: Strengthen college communities by providing safe spaces for groups of students and tutors to interact outside of normal classroom activities. Create student communities for extra-curricular clubs and professional learning communities for tutors.

Personalisation: With itslearning, students have access to a variety of ways to self-reflect and track progress towards goals, including blogs, ePortfolios and Individual Learning Plans. Help students to own their learning by using tools such as surveys to gather student input, and the content recommendation engine to suggest activities and resources based on their personal learning style.

Professional Learning: Support consistency in quality and productivity by providing tutors with a way to connect, collaborate and share resources and best practices. Use courses and assessment criteria to give feedback to tutors against professional learning standards. Deliver professional development in the same platform in which tutors teach, so they can see what learning can look like in their own classrooms.

In addition to achieving £1.4 million

in savings over the last three years,

itslearning’s collaboration with

Hopwood Hall College has helped to

drive up learner success rates by 10

percentage points, propelling it into

the top quartile of the UK FE sector.”

Derek O’Toole, Principal,

Hopwood Hall College

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Not all learning platforms and providers are created equally. Developed specifically by educators for educators and establishments like yours, itslearning incorporates streamlined curriculum management functionality, and focuses on proven pedagogical strategies that drive student-centred learning.

We draw on our experience in project and change management to develop long-term

partnerships with our customers, whilst providing best-in-class functionality to help drive achievement to ensure tangible progress is being made. This includes progression tracking and reporting, recommendation engine for remediation and review, master course templates, lesson planning functionality, personal dashboards with automatic updates, and assessment criteria for assignments and activities.

Why itslearning?

Whether you need to share data with your Management Information System (MIS) or other system, we work closely with you to develop and execute an integration and implementation plan that ensures the best possible process and outcomes for your college.

“ “We are developing a strong

partnership with itslearning.

We were very impressed with

their professional approach

at all stages of the selection

process and their deep

understanding of what we

want to achieve.”

Gill Worgan,Principal,

West Herts College

Want to know more…?

Contact an itslearning education consultant today and let us show you how to get started: www.itslearning.com

itslearning is an award-winning, cloud-based learning platform that helps tutors make education more inspiring and valuable for today’s students. We provide a full range of services, from simple training sessions to full-scale implementation projects. Established in 1999, we have our headquarters in Bergen, Norway, with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Berlin, Enschede, Milton Keynes, Malmö, Mulhouse and Paris.