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📢 Our next Live Stream Event is taking place on May 2, 2025
📢 Our next Live Stream Event is taking place on May 2, 2025
With the NHS aiming to recruit an extra 40,000 nurses over the next five years, the Access To Higher Education: Diploma In Health programme creates a pathway for anyone with a passion for care to return to education and gain a valuable qualification.
Since moving into their £100m campus in 2008, Middlesbrough College has gone from strength to strength. With over 14,000 students, the college can boast results placing them in the top 10% for vocational courses, top 25% for apprenticeship achievement, and a 100% pass rate in 19 A Level subjects.
When planning their new distance learning course, they identified that they needed to meet the following criteria:
The college’s subject matter experts and Discover eLearning worked together to decide that the course should offer a variety of digital learning methods and styles, including video, exercises and games, and live Skype sessions with tutors to cement key topics of learning and to acknowledge progress made throughout the year. These needed to be engaging to achieve retention targets, so were planned to be as fun and engaging as possible.
The use of a design framework and a clear focus on digital pedagogy ensured that the programme was delivered on time and in line with Middlesbrough College’s requirements and expectations on quality. This was imperative, as each module of the programme needed to be prepared and ready to welcome students on a bi-monthly basis.
The finished project reflected the excitement of starting a new course by taking students on a journey down ‘Access Street’; a virtual, animated 2D street containing interactive course materials, seminars and help areas all built inside of the college’s own virtual learning environment, Canvas LMS. The course also included elements of humour in response to previous access courses the college had seen, which they believed to be dry and disengaging for learners.
The tutors featured throughout the course threw themselves into the part of acting and presenting in many of the course videos. They became recognisable faces to the learners following their group and one-to-one Skype calls, and seeing the tutors in these videos provided more opportunities to build engagement and a learner-tutor relationship.
The first year of the course had an excellent take-up. Out of the initial 27 students participating, 70% of the initial intake progressed to university in order to embark on a health-related career. This is above the national average for non-distance learning.
Discover eLearning and Middlesbrough College were delighted to be announced as runners-up in two categories at the 2019 Learning Technologies Awards, held at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel in London.
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