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Flipped learning and ebooks at Shireland

Shireland Collegiate Academy is well-known for having embraced flipped learning across the school. Alan Hodgin considers how the use of ebooks has supported this approach.

While the pedagogical model of flipped learning isn’t a new concept, it is being increasingly adopted in classrooms to help schools meet Ofsted targets and raise pupils’ attainment.

For one West Midlands secondary school, this interactive and personalised approach has had a significant impact on their students’ literacy levels. Last year Shireland Collegiate Academy introduced an ebook solution to deliver flipped learning, sharply focused interventions, independent learning and a transition programme. Following the pilot, here’s what they discovered:

That 95 per cent of students said that ebooks are a useful learning tool.

That 81 per cent of students read more often and for longer with ebooks.

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