Dear All
A report from the taskforce on e-learning, headed by Steve Morrison, has
stated that Information Technology should be designated a basic skill
along with literacy and numeracy, with free computer courses for all.
The report looked at how to make post-16 learning easier to access, more
flexible and suited to the needs of individuals using new technologies.
Education and Skills Secretary Estelle Morris welcomed the report's
contribution to thinking on the future of post-16 education.
The report includes the following recommendations:
* Information and Communication Technology (ICT) should be
designated a basic skill by 2010 along with literacy and numeracy. This
would give everyone access to free courses to improve their basic IT
skills but focussing initially on 16-18 year olds in full or part-time
study; those in Modern Apprenticeships; the unemployed and people in
part-time work.
* The creation of 'College Online' - an expansion of Curriculum
Online into the post- 16 sector. This would give teachers and tutors in
the post-16 sector access to a bank of online learning resources to use
with their students to help make learning more exciting.
* National Mentoring Programme with 5,000 additional e-learning
mentors to support tutors online with a central database at
www.mentornet.org.uk <http://www.mentornet.org.uk>
* Development of an online 'careers adviser' - Which Way? To give
people easy access to advice on the most suitable learning for them
right the way through to job opportunities.
* Improvements in work-based learning - small businesses should be
supported and offered incentives to provide relevant occupational online
learning. Investors in People UK should include access to e-learning
opportunities as standard as part of its strategy to engage more small
businesses.
David Dawson
Senior ICT Adviser
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