How much of my course will be delivered remotely?
Ideally, the majority of your learning will be delivered face to face and on-site.
If the College is forced, as a result of national or local restrictions arising from COVID-19, to stop operating face to face learning, learning will be moved on-line. You will be advised of any changes to your learning delivery method either by your tutor or via an email from the College Principal.
Ideally, your tutor should have explained in person how this will work and demonstrated the use of Microsoft Teams in advance. For some short courses, however, this may not always be possible.
To enable a smooth transition to remote learning, if this is required as a result of national / local restrictions, some courses may also add short periods of remote delivery to your normal timetable, as a ‘practice run’, to ensure that you and other learners can access lessons effectively.
Examples where short periods of remote learning have already been embedded into the timetable include:
At Redcar and Cleveland College the Curriculum has been amended in light of the ongoing Covid pandemic. When the College is open to learners, practical elements of your course will be delivered face to face. Where online learning is appropriate, parts of your programme will be delivered remotely.
Across the College, a blend of online learning and face to face learning have taken place since September. Examples of online and face to face learning include Health and Social care where a proportion of learning was moved to remote delivery. Public Services has, in the main, had its lessons delivered face to face but has had a number of theory-based sessions online to test the practicalities of remote learning.
Whichever model is used, our key focus is to ensure that learning is engaging and enables you make positive progress towards completion of your qualification.
There are other instances where periods of remote learning may be required, such as learners or teaching staff having to self-isolate as a result of COVID-19, more guidance will be provided from your tutor should this matter arise.
It is our aim, as far as possible and in line with the guidance issued from the Government, that remote learning will only be a small element of your course. However, the proportion of remote learning will vary from course to course – your course tutor will provide more information.
