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ProActive Hospitality& Catering
ProActive Hospitality & Catering is afully integrated solution for tutors and learners. It brings together e-learning, textbooks, tutor support, e-portfolio and assessment for Level 2 Catering courses.
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ProActive Hospitality& Catering
Context
These learning materials have been developed by one of the UK’s leading educational publishers Heinemann, and City & Guilds|, one of the UK's leading vocational awarding bodies.
Learning materials are presented asablend of online and offline materials specifically designed to save lecturer time and to help increase learner motivation so they achieve success with their chosen qualification.
Product Features
ProActive Hospitality and Catering provides a blended learning approach incorporating:
- Textbooks: specifically written by industry experts to match the learning outcomes for NVQ Level 2 - Professional Cookery. The learning materials cover the complete range of knowledge and skills that the student require.
- Interactive learning activities and video presentations
- Online assessment - Via City & Guilds' GOLA provides a streamlined assessment process.
- Online tutor support - Lesson plans, Worksheets, Quizzes, Recipesand Learner and Assessor recording documents.
- e-Portfolio –enabling learners to present their evidence electronically as opposed to the traditional paper logbook.
Perceived e-Learning Benefits
Teachers and learners are equally enthusiastic about the quality of these learning materials. In theory classes students can interact directly with the learning materials rather than sitting passively listening to their lecturer.
These learning materials have:
- Increased student motivation and help increase student concentration levels
- Greatly enhanced visual aids
- Allowed, students who have missed a class, or all of the class, to study videos and view interactive learning materials
- Learners take confidence gained in theory classes into practical classes
- Learning materials can be accessed in College, in the workplace or from home
- Increased Retention Rates
- Have improved the efficiency of teaching and learning
Testimonials
The success of ProActive Catering and Hospitality materials is reflected in comments from learners and tutors:
Kriss – NVQ Level 2 Learner: “It’s not too hard and not too easy … start with easy stuff and progress to the harder stuff”
Sharon NVQ Level 2 Learner “I really love this proactive thing … It’s an easy way to learn … We don’t have to sit and wait on a teacher to start writing”
David Bird – Chef/Lecturer “It covers everything from Health and Safety to initially going into the kitchen … It helps with retention … It improves the efficiency of teaching and learning”
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