Case studies in digital skills
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Ufi is an independent grant giver focused on developing digital technology to deliver adult vocational skills in the UK. They aim to change the way learning is delivered, create a market for vocational and technical education (VocTech), and demonstrate innovative approaches. They provide case studies of funded projects on their website, including blended learning courses and digitally-enriched apprenticeships. Ufi also aims to catalyze change by funding projects that explore new ways of delivering skills through technology.
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Case studies in digital skills
- 1. Case studies in digital skills Katherine Laux
- 2. About Ufi? We are an independent grant giver, focused on the development of digital technology to deliver adult vocational skills. The UK needs more and better workplace skills and we believe that digital technology can unlock these – more skills for more people, more of the time.
- 3. What is Ufi working to achieve? Change the way we learn Create a VocTech market Demonstrate the art of the possible
- 4. Case studies (FREE to users)
- 5. Blended Learning Essentials Deliver vocational teacher and trainer CPD in digital pedagogy and digital skills
- 6. @BLECourse on FutureLearn Getting started Sign up this week! Embedding Practice 05.02.18 Digitally-enriched Apprenticeships 12.03.18 14.07.18 Developing Digital Skills 16.04.18
- 12. Catalysing change We know we can’t change everything with our funds – but we can catalyse change. We look for projects that explore new ways of delivering skills, or develop new ways to support learning, or that take established technology and apply it to new workplaces or situations.
- 13. Funding calls VocTech Seed – £50K VocTech Impact – £50K- £300K Specific calls – e.g. Manufacturing Skills Fund
- 14. Get in touch Events – Meet us face to face for an informal chat about your project idea Visit our website for more information, guidance and FAQs Follow Ufi on Twitter and LinkedIn. Register on our website for news and updates
- 15. Ufi Charitable Trust 26 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4AG info@ufi.co.uk www.ufi.co.uk @UfiTrust
- 17. Star Dash Studios How to teach maths to those that struggled in traditional classroom settings. The solution: An engaging mobile game, based on how a runner on a film set might need to use maths to do their job.
Editor's Notes
- My name is Katherine Laux and I am a PM for the UFI Charitable Trust which is dedicated to helping to improve the skills levels of the workforce of the UK through innovative uses of digital technology.
- Our sole focus is on promoting the use of digital technology to deliver vocational learning for adults (that’s anyone over 16). We fund organisations which can develop new ways to use digital technology to deliver vocational learning – the learning that enables you to acquire the knowledge and skills you need to get a job, to keep a job and to build a career. We are a small team with a group of great Trustees that set our strategic direction.
- Low levels of workforce skills are holding back UK productivity and increasingly digital technology is changing how we work. Here at Ufi, we believe that digital technology can also provide the solution to long running problems in vocational learning, that we can harness the power of digital technologies to change how people learn and build their skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century. Our aim is to encourage the supply of digital learning solutions available by creating a visible and vibrant community of developers and learning providers working at the cutting edge of learning technologies and building a pipeline of new learning tools and delivery methods. We believe that technology will make vocational learning better, more accessible and more affordable. At the same time, we want to promote the demand for new digital learning products and services; demonstrating the value of those who commission or purchase training by raising the visibility of digital learning and showing how it can help meet business needs. Case studies Funding
- Trusted - Ufi is an independent charity – this gives us considerable flexibility in how we design our processes; and how we work within them. Innovative – which sometimes means disrupting the status quo to transform how vocational learning happens in the UK Understanding – our team of wide ranging experts are there to guide you through your development Daring/bold – we want to make a UK wide impact, so that means effecting change at a large scale. We will take the risk where investors and businesses may not be able to. We will believe in your project if selected. We know we can’t change the world, but we can help to catalyse a change Effective – our funded learning solutions are designed to produce top quality learning experiences Since you are here, you will have registered with us and can look forward to receiving regular news and updates on our calls and other activities.
- Where to find help with your application: Events – Meet us face to face for an informal chat about your project idea Visit our website for more information, guidance and FAQs Follow Ufi on Twitter and LinkedIn. Register on our website for news and updates
- Star Dash Studios is an app based runner game, designed to help people who found it difficult to learn maths in traditional classroom settings. Learners can find enjoyable new ways to learn by relating maths to the real situations they find themselves in at work. This is a good example of a project designed to reach a very large number of users. Stardash Studios has already been downloaded more than 10,000 times. It is designed to support the development of basic skills – numeracy in this case – for use in the workplace through an app based runner game. The mini quests and challenges are based on how you might need to use maths at work – in this case an imaginary film studio! It has been carefully tailored to help people develop their maths skills in a work context . People who found it difficult to learn maths in a classroom can find new, more enjoyable ways to learn by relating maths to the real situations they find themselves in at work. This will help learners to access work; and help employers by ensuring that more people have the numeracy skills required in the workplace.