Using a Virtual Learning Environment to deliver transitional skills at the Royal National College for the Blind

Abstract

This paper reviews how a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) was used as an Innovative way to deliver transitional skills to 16 to 19 year-old students at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford. Focusing on the pilot phase, it examines the choice of delivery, describes the planning and process, and refiects on this from the perspectives of tutors, students and a learning technalogist, A major consideration was the accessibility and usability of the technology and whether it would be feasible to introduce a VLE as a cross-college initiative. This pilot was a success in respect of its primary objective and has been the springboard for wider use of VLEs in college and further quantitative and qualitative research.