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Training providers must 'better embrace' online learning during lockdown

2 mins read Education Coronavirus
Training providers must do more to embrace online learning to improve support for young people during Covid-19 lockdowns, a new study suggests.
Students must be given the right equipment to learn, the AELP says. Picture: Adobe Stock
Students must be given the right equipment to learn, the AELP says. Picture: Adobe Stock

Research by the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) looked at lessons training providers can learn from the first lockdown which began in March.

It has emerged that many training providers “were not as far down the path of being ready for online and distance learning as they had thought”, the AELP says.

Based on the views of training sector leaders, the report called The Way We Work, found that providers had “further to go" to make online learning a “viable working proposition”.

Some admitted to researchers that “they had not really given enough thought” to online learning ahead of the pandemic.

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