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Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning

Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning. CLD Managers Conference 9 th November 2010 Edinburgh Susan Walls and Shirley Grieve. Learning Outcomes of today’s workshop: To increase understanding of the work of Explaining the Difference

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Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning

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  1. Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning CLD Managers Conference 9th November 2010 Edinburgh Susan Walls and Shirley Grieve

  2. Learning Outcomes of today’s workshop: • To increase understanding of the work of Explaining the Difference • To increase knowledge of the different opportunities to take part in Explaining the Difference under the national CLD Upskilling Programme Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning

  3. Introductions • Who you are and who you work for? • What has attracted you to this workshop? Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning

  4. In partnership and collaboration • Learning Link Scotland is the national intermediary supporting and representing voluntary adult learning organisations in Scotland • Evaluation Support Scotland works with voluntary organisations and funders so they can measure their impact, report on the difference they make and improve their services Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning

  5. Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning • What is Explaining the Difference (ETD)? • an innovative approach to evaluation • a programme for learning how to show the impacts and outcomes of your work

  6. What we did? • Ran an action learning set of voluntary adult learning providers • Built a collective model of the difference they make and how they contribute to local and national outcomes • Produced individual models to describe this difference and generated much learning about how to evidence our impact • Produced tools to create the evaluation process Explaining the Difference: the impact of Community Based Adult Learning

  7. What difference has this made for the participants? • Better at self evaluation • Delineated the learner’s “journey” • Checked this with meaningful indicators • Confident about asking “so what?” • Told their story and highlighted the impact of the sector • Gained the support of a peer network Explaining the Difference: the impact of community based adult learning

  8. Explaining the Difference: the impact of community based adult learning • What difference has this made for the organisations? • Ability to see clear links to SOAs and National Outcomes • Become more robust and sustainable • Helped organisations effect change both within their organisation and at a local level • Able to make the links between developing their own logic model and HMIe/HGIOCLD? (2)

  9. What difference this has made for service delivery? • Increased collaboration and partnership • Voluntary sector engagement in SOAs • Capturing unexpected outcomes • Added value of an action learning approach Explaining the Difference: the impact of community based adult learning

  10. Explaining the Difference: the impact of community based adult learning • The Programme - Creating an evaluation process: 4-6 session action learning set supported by a pack of learning materials: • Exploring and agreeing learner’s needs • Mapping inputs and activities • Identifying the outcomes and stages of outcomes • Evidencing through indictors/data collection • Creating the model to demonstrate impact

  11. The EtD Pack contains • Synopsis of the first Action Learning Set • “Do it yourself” section with activities • Tools to develop the evaluation process • Signposts for further help Explaining the Difference: the impact of community based adult learning

  12. Explaining the Difference: the impact of community based adult learning CLD Upskilling Programme 2010-2011 Opportunities are: • 6 half day taster sessions across Scotland • 1 Action Learning programme for 8 CLD staff • 1 day workshop for CLD managers/practitioners

  13. Explaining the Difference: the impact of community based adult learning How to sign up for tasters, action learning set or 1 day workshop in CLD Upskilling Programme? Contact: • Shirley Grieve to learn more about the opportunities sgrieve@learninglinkscotland.org.uk

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