 Mae'r cyfrindwyr ydy i gweithio ar y cerdd ymlaen, ysgrifennidydd ymlaen, a neu'r cyfrindwyr gyntaf gyda'r cyfrindwyr. Felly, rwy'n meddwl i'r meddwl i'r llwyddon a'r cyfrindwyr yw hwn yn ei ddweud. Mae'n oeddaeth i fod yn ôl yn y ddweud. A rwy'n meddwl i'r cerdd yw ddweud, a eich cyfrindwyr o'r cyfrindwyr yw ddweud. Rwy'n meddwl i'r meddwl i'r cyfrindwyr, ac yna'r gweithiau gyda'r cyfrindwyr. today we're going to consider a little bit of the context of the open learning champions programme. We're going to look at the opportunity lies with it and we'll have a look at some of the new tools that we're implementing as well as part of our model for growth. We'll also have a look at an example of how we use the programme in practice alongside what success means for the programme and what we're doing at the moment and finally Felly, we will ask for a bit of feedback from you as well. Moving swiftly on, the Open Learning Champions has very direct ties into the Adult Learning Strategy here in Scotland. It's all about empowering those who are working with learners in the community. Open Learning Champions uses our Open Learn website for free resources mainly. We work with champions or Open Learning Champions who are based in the third sector, local authorities, colleges, unis and lots more types of organisations out with that as well. The real aim is around removing those barriers and supporting pathways for learners from informal to formal learning. The aim with Open Learning Champions is to help build a network of those champions as well to join up opportunities for learners. It's all about using those Open Learn resources flexibly to support work already taking place within those communities as well. Open Learning is ideal for this as it has huge range of resources across lots of different levels and lots of different modalities as well. The champions are really the key part of it to engaging learners and using the resources to identify how best they can support the learners to reach their goals. We've included the Adult Learning Strategy, some of the key aims from that on this slide, just to hopefully show where Open Learning Champions sits alongside it as well. So, what we've done recently, the Open Learning Champions programme has been going for a number of years across Scotland and you can see that we've had a good number of champions over the years. We've got around 400 signed up at the moment and many of them have been champions for quite a long time. An evaluation was undertaken recently and this was carried out by our Access Participation and Success team here in Scotland. We had some recommendations that came out of that evaluation as well and there was actually a paper written for the Widing Participation and Lifelong Learning journal as well and I'll pop the reference for that into the chat in a second too. On the back of those recommendations, we undertook some feedback and we did a review with some stakeholders looking at the model and really looking at collaboration across those stakeholders as well. There's a lot of ambition within the OU in Scotland now to see what new plans we can make with the programme. The first steps in this process have included creating a new training module online for Open Learning Champions and considering the evaluation of the programme and how we can enhance the Open Learning Champions community as well. Moving on quite swiftly, the first of those was talking around that Open Learning Champion online module as well. This was a major piece of work undertaken by David to create this module and the idea with the module is to train individual Open Learning Champions, providing an online resource for that. We've had some really helpful feedback already from some of our experienced champions about what that looks like and to help us tweak it and carry on developing it as well. We've also used the module in offline face-to-face settings as well related to a specific community project that we're working on. The module is really used as a wraparound to the face-to-face contact, allowing people to go away and explore Open Learning Champions and have a look at it alongside getting that face-to-face support as well. We're also looking at how it can be used in an introductory session online with some contacts on a first contact basis. Using these different methods based around the module should allow us to grow the network flexibly, while being savvy with our resource as well. The online module is really helping with that. I'm very happy to now hand over to David, who's going to take us through a bit more detail. That's great. Thanks, Gemma. I'm also going to give a wee shout out to Anna, who's in our audience today, because I worked with Anna quite a lot on the development of the module and got lots of great feedback from her, so it was definitely not a one-person job. I guess looking at the options that we have for delivery in terms of using the module and the flexibility that it gives, we wanted to look at how we could grow the programme in meaningful and manageable ways. One of the things that we have looked to is going from more of a reactive model to taking more of a strategic partnership approach to how we deliver the Open Learning Champions project moving forward. So looking to work with nation, Scotland-wide organisations that allow us to create a greater reach, but because we can now deliver it through an online platform, we can do that in a much more efficient way. We've got some community-based initiatives underway at the moment, and I'm going to speak a bit more about one of those in a wee seconds. It also gives us a platform along with another few resources that we're developing, a new online hub for Open Learning Champions in Scotland. We're working with partners in Open University in Wales to develop a new learner interactive tool to facilitate access to Open Learning and course choice and getting people to navigate the system, who maybe aren't perhaps as used to online learning that will allow us to be a bit more flexible and agile in our delivery model. I'm just going to move on a wee second. So one of the things that we're looking at as well is data and evaluation. So I think we can know from conversations that we have, we have regular catch-ups with our champions and regular connection with them through coffee mornings and other events. We know that the programme is impactful. We know that the champions in the community engaging with learners that are known to them, the champions are known to them, works. But what we need to develop is a more robust data set and evaluation methodology till I was to prove the efficacy of the programme over the longer term. So we're looking at things at the minute like developing a new registration page for learners that access Open Learn through one of our Open Learning Champions. It will allow us to create what we call an activity in our CRM system effectively. And that will allow us to see where learners are accessing Open Learn and then potentially moving on to Open University study as well. And then in some of our partnerships at the moment, we're looking at a joint approach to evaluation. So the community partnership that I'm going to touch on just now, we are carrying out some of the analysis of the evaluation and the data that we get through. But the collection of that is going to come through some mixed methods postcards events. There's going to be interviews, qualitative interviews carried out by champions with their learners because they know them and the relationships are there. And we're going to work together to try and understand what works well, what would work better in the future and how we can better engage with those that are frankly furthest away from engaging with online education in the communities in Scotland. And we're also looking at the combining data from those pieces of evaluation with what we can tell from user data on the new hub and all of these things to give us a better idea of how things are working in practice. Looking at time for minutes, okay, let's do this. So in terms of community, there's a great community of champions already, but again, we're looking to promote that community and develop it even further. Two of the key things that we're doing there are through the online module. There's a forum that we're promoting to our existing champions and we will encourage our new champions as they come on to engage in that forum and we want to create that peer to peer support space. So yes, it's moderated by a couple of OU staff, but it's really a discussion space for our champions to share experiences, successes, challenges, mitigations and ideas and really to connect with each other. And another upcoming thing that I'm quite excited about is because we're doing quite a lot with our colleagues in Open University in Wales. They are working with us to deliver a session on the barriers that adult learners face and how a coaching and mentoring approach depending on how you're working with your learners may help facilitate a breakdown of those barriers and help people engage with learning in the longer term. So lots going on in the community space. This is just one of the community projects that we're talking about. So the short version is what we've done is we've developed 25, I think it is, open learning champions in a specific location in Scotland. They are working actively with their learners just now and how we're supporting them in the longer term is running a number of drop-in sessions in the community centre on a fortnightly basis. They started at the end of March and they're going to run through until the end of August. So the first one was very much a drop-in, come and meet us, let's discuss what your needs are, tell us what you would like to get out of learning. There's one running next Tuesday that's focused on neighbourhood nature and we're also going to have some activities run by one of our champions for kids because it's Easter holidays. So we're trying to reduce barriers that way as well. So there's something for the kids to do. And while that programme is running, we're also going to have tasters of our access module that's starting in October, which is a psychology wellbeing and social science module. And we're hoping to identify a cohort of about 18 people to go on to that module and they will get the support from our tutors as normal, but they'll also get some wraparound support delivered by the local college. So it's a whole programme, which will be valuating from start to finish based on the local community that started off with the champions and they're really driving things forward. They're the kind of fuel in the engine, so to speak. And then, two minutes, okay, let's do it. So there's some measures of success and some outputs that we're looking at. I think what we're really keen to see is growth of the network or impact on our learners in a myriad of ways, whether that's confidence in themselves, new skills for work, new skills for life. Or whether that's moving on to more formal accredited learning opportunities, whether without the Open University. I mean, we're just wanting to support the adult learning strategy in general. I've got one minute, so I'm going to try this. I'm going to try and share my screen now. We have got some a little feedback tool using Mentimeter. So if you give me two seconds, I'm going to see if I can get that to work. Okay, can you see that on screen now Gemma? That's great. So if you go, you can either scan the barcode or go to menti.com and enter that code. If you give me two seconds, this is actually the second screen. So you should see five questions which you can rate. So hopefully you'll be able to rate those now if you've longed on. And then I'll give that 30 seconds. Hopefully you're still there. And then I'll move on to the next slide. But the feedback's open after the presentation finishes. So well, we're still here. I just want to say thanks for me and Gemma for coming along. 15 minutes. Sounds like a long time. 15 minutes is not a long time. So that's basically gone quicker than we thought. But thank you very much for coming along and we hope you found it useful. You should be able to see on the screen now some of the responses that we're getting. So learners at the heart. Five, that's great. Program will support access. About six, that's grand and some more coming through grand. And I am just going to move us on to the next one, which is if you have time, add any kind of feedback you've got about what we've delivered today. If you've got time to do that, that would be great. It would be really kind of keen to hear from you that way. Thanks everyone for joining us. I hope they've got some feedback. And we'll stick around just in case there's any questions in the chat if you want to stick around and chat. Thanks Anna. Thanks Paul, I thought I'd recognise your name. That's great. And I think that's us. Thanks very much. Enjoy the rest of your session. Anna, you're going to come to your session tomorrow I think. We've got that booked in the diary and look forward to hearing about what you've got to share tomorrow as well. Thanks Mark as well. Take care.