TEC Partnership is one of England’s largest further and higher education providers. With a rich history of developing innovative training and education solutions for the community, the Partnership comprises of the Grimsby Institute, University Centre Grimsby, Scarborough TEC, formerly known as Yorkshire Coast College, East Riding College, Skegness TEC, formerly known as Lincolnshire Regional College and The Academy Grimsby, which offers an alternative educational route for gifted 14-16 year olds.
Virtual Tour
360 Degree Images
360 degree image of the eLearning Centre at the Bridlington Campus
At present, we are exploring the usefulness of
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented reality (AR) technologies
within education and experimenting with the use of 360-degree photography and video capture.
3D Printers
East Riding College is now in possession of 3D printers which is being used to make a variety of items. The printer also allows for the tangible results of CAD drawings for student assessment/projects which show errors and allow for rectification prior to using costly real resources.
The image shows a 3D printer and small key rings and tokens which have been made for open events and competitions.
Blended Learning Consortium (BLC)
East Riding College are members of the Blended Learning Consortium (BLC) where a vast amount of learning content is specifically created for the Further Education (FE) sector. By joining the BLC, the college accesses and uploads packages onto the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). All this content is correct, current and now accessibility compliant.
Our staff also regularly attend (BLC) regional conferences, this is where updates are shared, and feedback collected to assist future developments. The BLC also provides material in media format and member colleges are sometimes given the opportunity to produce video content, which when approved, can net the provider £500 for each one. At present we are overseeing the production of videos by two Higher Education Computing students doing work experience in the eLearning Centre.
The Awards
TEC Partnership have had great success and won many awards over the previous years, including:
- TEF Silver
- Canvas Impact Award
- Learning Technologies Organisation of the year (Gold)
- Learning Technologies Team of the Year (Gold) 2020
- Blended Learning Impact Award 2019
- Microsoft Showcase College – 2018 – 2022
- AoC Beacon Award for Staff Development 2017
- Student Digital Champion of the Year
Most notably, the TEC Partnership was recently awarded the Queens Anniversary award, where senior leaders were invited to accept the award at St James Palace in February 2022.
Queens Anniversary Award 2020-2022
“The TEC Partnership is a national leader in digital innovation in the education sector and comprises a number of colleges and educational establishments in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It is active in college-wide digital collaboration and is part of two brand-new and ground-breaking Institutes of Technology. It uses expertise in digital technology to ensure no learner is left behind and actively levels the educational playing field for students facing socio-economic disadvantage.”
Queen’s Anniversary Prize Information
Avocor Digital Screens
At present the East Riding College IT department has a strategy to replace projectors with the more longer lasting Avocor Digital Screens. At present we have a total of 13 screens and as these need minimum training to use, they have been welcomed by our tutors.
These Avocor screens give a true tablet like experience with a swipe functionality and have anti-glare and anti-fingerprint glass allowing for smooth writing, they are portable so apart from classrooms they can be utilized in public areas i.e. themed weeks and open evenings.
Clinical Skills Centre
The Clinical Skills Centre at the Bridlington campus now houses a sophisticated robotic “dummy” patient which can be programmed to simulate symptoms and diseases. This allows for practical assessment and practice in observation skills students need in a realistic health care environment.
Immersive and VR Technology
VISR Headset
At TEC Partnership we have recently opened our new Immersive rooms across our different sites. These sites allow our students to use new groundbreaking technology to elevate their education and offer them a new way of learning increasing engagement like we have never seen before. These rooms are based at Grimsby, Scarborough, Beverley and Bridlington and all include an Immersive board and Virtual reality headsets.
The hopes of these rooms are to not only give our students a new way to learn, but to also imbed the technology into their curriculums. We see these rooms as a piece of equipment that will elevate students time at the college, not to replace traditional ways of teaching. We have hired three new learning technologists to operate the rooms to work with tutors to create content for their lessons and work out how to elevate their lessons with the technology.
Our learning technologists have also rolled training for our tutors that want to be more involved with the rooms. This training consists of two stages being ‘Licence to Use’ and ‘Licence to Create.’ The former allowing tutors to use the rooms without the supervision of the learning technologists and the latter allowing tutors to create their own content for their lessons without having to rely on the learning technologists.
This is an extremely exciting project for us here at TEC Partnership and we are confident that it is going to have a positive impact on our student’s education.