The guiding principles for EdTech evaluation routines by educators and policy-makers.
Category: Education & Development
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The difficulty of setting a standard for EdTech and the need for
research-based quality criteria.
Category: Education & Development
This outlines key findings and recommendations from a study with home-educating families whose children had previously been enrolled in schools.
Category: Education & Development
All the content in this hub has been selected by academics across The Open University, specifically for home educators, home-educated young people, practitioners and others interested in home education.
Category: Education & Development
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All the content in this hub has been selected by academics across The Open University, specifically for teachers, teaching assistants and support staff working across the secondary, primary and early years sectors, including those involved in home education, special schools and pupil referral units.
All the content in this hub has been selected by academics across The Open University, specifically for teachers, teaching assistants and support staff working across the secondary, primary and early years sectors, including those involved in home education, special schools and pupil referral units.
Category: Education & Development
A collection of free resources from The Open University - articles, videos, audio and courses tailored to support home educators, home-educated young people, and other stakeholders.
Category: Education & Development
UNESCO’s 2021 report ‘Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education’ sets out an invitation to all education stakeholders to participate in policy discussion, research and innovation to transform education.
Category: Education & Development
My recent research on Elective Home Educators (EHE) experience of exam cancellations revealed not only systematic and financial disadvantages for these EHE students but interestingly showed new insights into how they learn, approach and regard exams.
Category: Education & Development
As a specialist teacher and volunteer with a local autism charity, I had contact with families who had deregistered from school reluctantly, or who considered their children had been ‘off-rolled’.
Category: Education & Development
There has been continuing annual growth in the number of children and young people being home-educated across the UK.
Category: Education & Development
This collection of articles is intended to support the educational and professional practices of groups of practitioners, learners, researchers, and policymakers who have a shared interest in the topic of home education, or elective home education within the UK and beyond.
Category: Education & Development
Understanding the experiences of previously home-educated adults.
Category: Education & Development
There are an estimated 80.000 children home-educated in England. No accurate data is available on how many of these children sit national examinations each year. However, a study during the Covid pandemic shed light on challenges when the exams were cancelled, and some significant inequalities came to light.
Category: Education & Development
As the population of home-educating families continues to grow, how can professionals improve how they work with parents who may have had a negative experience of previous local authority support?
Category: Education & Development