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UniServity cLc - redefining learning communities The UniServity cLc is able to connect schools and learners to a variety of previously unavailable collaborators and audiences. UniServity has solid evidence to support the fact that the cLc learning platform and its associated staff development is breaking down the barriers to learning. It is allowing educators to blur the distinctions between formal and informal learning and making anywhere anytime learning and the notion of a global learner who is world aware and engaged in cultural values and identity a reality. It is our belief that the use of the platform particularly enables schools to the personalize the learning experience of their students, allowing for the development of new 21st century literacies offering learners choice and a voice in their own learning.
Students receive their Awards at the UniServity Learning Platform Awards Self assessment is essential for students to develop into autonomous and independent learners with intrinsic motivation to learn. Peer assessment is integral to the process. With students behaving as authentic audiences for each other's work peer assessment becomes a natural part of the learning process and an element that the cLc facilitates and encourages via tools such as the task tool which allows students to see each other's work once submitted, evaluate it against a rubric and their own submissions before offering their own commentaries and suggestions for improvements. Since learners can retrieve their original submission and amend it in line with received feedback, the learning no longer stops once the assignment is handed in. For a busy teacher, all of their students' work can be accessed from one on screen location, the task forum allows them to steer their students' thinking during the process and she has a two way dialogue with all of her students which, like their submissions, is automatically captured for record keeping. UniServity cLc - removing barriers to learning: setting learners up for success The classroom has traditionally been the place where learning has been expected to take place. Students are rigidly grouped according to chronological age and are consequently limited in their access to appropriate learning partners from suitably diverse backgrounds. The audience and assessor for most of their output is the teacher. As Lemke once said; "It takes a village to educate a child". We support schools in breaking down the walls of the classroom to make the village bigger and installing the learner at its centre. 
UniServity cLc - formal and informal learning Access to learning from any location at times suitable to the learner allows teachers to blur the distinction between formal, non-formal and informal learning. Learning is no longer seen as being sandwiched between a series of bells and students can utilize a highly developed set of social networking skills that serve them so well in the schoolyard to support their own learning. UniServity cLc - extending the learning experience When students have access to vast quantities of information at their fingertips they need to be educated to be critical consumers of knowledge. The teacher can no longer present limited views of the world and how it works. Students need access to levels of expertise previously seldom seen in the classroom and skills to critically analyze the information they are presented with. By opening up the world of industry, inviting parents and the community to take part and extending learning outside of familiar territories, the learners experience is immediately enhanced. Using learning partners, for example, parents, industry experts or other schools from around the world, teachers are able to extend the learning opportunities beyond their own specialism and invite the experts to set projects and give new dimensions on particular learning objectives. This expertise can be shared across schools. UniServity cLc - unique reference-ability UniServity can offer the work of both students and teachers as examples of how personalized and authentic learning is becoming a reality in our schools with students choosing their own learning pathways and teachers supporting their growth and development as active and independent lifelong learners. We can also demonstrate how the platform is transforming formative assessment, authentic assessment and self and peer assessment in all age groups. In terms of professional development, our examples demonstrate how teachers are establishing their own learning networks, sharing planning, resources, ideas and support, moderating standards across schools and sharing professional development opportunities and their subsequent impact across districts. We can also demonstrate how schools are using the tools to engage parents as genuine partners in learning; how they are reducing workload and making communication within and beyond the school more effective. We can share the experiences of schools in the USA, and around the world that are currently using the cLc Learning Platform and share how they report that the platform not only supports their progress but has acted as a catalyst for change.The UniServity cLc gives teachers and learners the learning environment, tools and support they need to make this transformation possible.
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