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Ofsted's guidance on "remote learning"

Ofsted has produced guidance:

What's working well in remote education

It contains one or two useful snippets, but I found it somewhat lacking. It doesn’t include hybrid teaching and learning, and says it’s a myth that “remote education is fundamentally different to other forms of teaching/learning”.

Hybrid learning, by Terry Freedman

Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by “fundamentally” in that context, but I think it’s different enough to warrant at least examining your approach and resources and assessment methods to check whether your usual kind of lesson would be effective online.

I think that this guidance is useful in making the idea of online teaching sound doable, but there are too few details or links to details that would make it truly useful.

I’ve published a more useful (in my opinion) article on hybrid learning, with some good links, in the Digital Education supplement. This is an area on my website open only to subscribers of my FREE newsletter, Digital Education.


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