E-LEARNING SUPPLEMENT CONTENTS


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We hear from Caroline Wright, Director General of education suppliers’ association BESA, about the revamped LendED website; and Caroline Kennard, managing director of the Britannica Group UK who offers her advice on how to best support students through online distance learning.


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Welcome to this, Education Today’s special supplement looking at remote learning. I don’t need to linger over the reasons for our creating this – suffice to say all of us here at the magazine hope that you and yours are keeping well and managing your days as safely and efficiently as you can. In this issue we have gathered


comment and advice from a number of companies and individuals active in the remote learning space, with the aim of offering you some pointers for possible solutions to home schooling and remote teaching practice. I’m hugely grateful to all who have taken the time and made the effort to get this information to us at such short notice. For fast-breaking free or discounted


software news, I’m also updating our Twitter feed regularly as I hear from companies who are offering free software in this time of national emergency. Incidentally, the “regular” April issue


will be along in due course, with as many of the regulars as we can muster in such challenging circumstances, but we wanted to get this supplement out to you as soon as we could. Please bear with us while we round up the regulars and get the magazine ready. Finally, we love to hear from you,


now more than ever - you can get in touch with us via Twitter @EdTodayMag, Facebook and our homepage, as well as by phone or email.


Enjoy the supplement! Jonathan Swift - Managing Editor


With Gareth Andrews, Head of Marketing, Renaissance Learning, who examines how technology can help with remote learning.


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Giancarlo Brotto, Education Insights Director at ed tech supplier SMART Technologies offers practical advice on setting up remote learning, and tips to help you teach in the most effective ways possible while separated from your students.


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Ricky Ye, CEO of DFRobot, explains how to support teachers with virtual training during distance learning; and GCSEPod looks at how to help students stay focused during distance learning.


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Jacqueline Daniell, CEO of Wey Education, looks at how we can best minimise disruption to learning through online schooling.


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Jane Dowden, Education Innovations Manager at the British Science Association, highlights the


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importance of making home learning as fun and engaging as possible; and Haylie Taylor, former teacher and education consultant at EducationCity, offers five ways to support students when learning remotely.


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We hear from suppliers of remote learning- related software who give us their thoughts on the challenges facing educators during the coronavirus pandemic.


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Izabela Gral, Marketing Manager UK & Ireland at ViewSonic Europe discusses the ways that ed tech can help schools connect with pupils now having to study from home.


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Kate Shand, Founder and CEO of Enjoy Education looks at making home schooling work for you. 18 COMMENT


Simon Carter, Marketing and Propositions Director at RM Education, discusses how schools can adapt their existing systems to move teaching online.


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Jan Capper, CEO of College and University Business Officers (CUBO) takes a look at the likely impact of Covid-19 on campus and commercial services on university sites across the UK.


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Graham Glass, CEO of Cypher Learning, offers three words of advice for distance learning during the pandemic - Improvise. Adapt. Overcome!


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