A CORNISH college has been praised as an example of best practice nationally as it delivers online learning to current and prospective students.
Callywith College in Bodmin together with Truro and Penwith College is streaming live health and fitness classes each day on its YouTube channel.
Over the curriculum as a whole, the colleges have 6,400 active online users and staff are delivering some 1,000 lessons and meetings online on a daily basis.
The ’digital campus’ is also open to Year 11 students from schools across Cornwall who want to get ready for transition in September and more than 700 have now signed up.
Principal of Truro and Penwith College and Callywith chair David Walrond said: ’At the start of the crisis we moved very quickly to providing both online learning for present students and online advice to future ones. This was only possible thanks to an extraordinary collective effort by teaching and support staff at both Colleges.
’We knew from early feedback that the quality and volume of what we had produced was being well received but the subsequent levels of take-up by current and future learners across Cornwall have genuinely surprised us. These are very challenging times, but they are producing great innovation, resilience and resourcefulness in further education, and not just from those who teach, but from thousands determined to keep learning.’