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CoSector

A unique digital learning supplier created by the sector for the benefit of the sector

 

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Supporting lifelong learning is an ongoing process

The need for learners to gain new skills and knowledge on demand throughout their lifetime is challenging institution structures and processes optimised for delivering three-year undergraduate degrees. The convenience of planning for repeat delivery on the assumption of annual tuition fees, creating digital identities for students to engage with the institution, and employers being able to infer a level of roundedness and extra-curricular skills from successful completion of a degree all require re-thinking.​

Being ready for this radically different future for education is stretching institutions’ adaptive capacity. Most offer flexible continuous professional development – some bend traditional structures to accommodate; others pursue more radical experiments, channelling 1990s learning organisation ideas of encouraging staff to imagine and learn collectively about how things could be different. Commercial entrants and affordances of emerging technologies such as Generative-AI have added new layers of opportunity and challenge into the picture. ​

With the current budgetary pressures in the sector, we at CoSector are working with our clients to help ensure they learn as much as much in this new reality as their students do. This means knowing how to evolve, adapt and integrate their systems and continuing to meet the real-world needs of the modern student.

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Stretch your adaptive capacities

Although scepticism remains over the pace and impact of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) on UK Higher Education provision, the October 2024 budget made a commitment to LLE-eligible provision starting from January 2027 to encourage flexible, upskilling over a lifetime. Preparing for this radically different future for education while delivering high quality provision with a reduced unit of resource is stretching institutions’ adaptive capacity. Delivering flexible continuous professional development courses is already exposing limits for bending structures and systems optimised for three-year degree programmes but significant growth in credit-based fee models integrated with a new record of learner achievement requires innovation at pace.

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Accelerate your flexible provision

CoSector is partnering with institutions that are accelerating flexible provision, establishing dedicated platforms that enable learners to bring their own digital identity to discover, register, engage with and complete micro and macro courses. For instance, CoSector helped one institution switch delivery in a matter of months from an OPM (Online Programme Management) platform to a dedicated platform that enabled more rapid and wide-ranging experimentation at reduced cost. CoSector is currently helping several institutions innovate short course provision through specialist advice and consultancy on how to extend and configure Moodle capabilities to streamline the learner journey.

Our commitment to the sector

We operate on a number of key principles. We seek to offer our flexibility, dependability, expertise and a technology agnostic approach. A partnership with us enables you to work seamlessly with all the market-leading offerings, de-risking your technology procurement and empowering you to develop your learning experience.

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