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2 - Finding a way through the fog

In this post, I will summarise the journey that preceded the current project. Despite the early warning signs globally in regard to Covid-19, it still shook the education system across all levels when the UK went into national lockdown. These shocks soon turned to action planning from an operational point of view, especially once it became clear that this was not going to blow over in a few months working from home. The first priority that was to establish answers to the following questions: 1. How will delivering teaching, learning and assessment from home work for both staff and learners? 2. What will be our underlying digital system infrastructure to support point 1? 3. What are the accessibility concerns for both staff and learners? A group with a fancy acronym was formed to answer these questions. Members of the group had a range of techniques associated with technology from across the organisation. This group was diverse in experience and background, and would enable the answers
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1 - A few notes before we begin...

The purpose of this blog is to document a project being led by myself, and with a soon to be team of volunteers within our educational institution. The names of those involved will remain anonymous to keep the documentation of this journey objective and detached from the subjective baggage that comes with organisational brands, regional perception of places and associated emotions from those representing the organisation, who will care deeply about any compromising operational insight and perception in the local, regional and national community.  Integrity is vitally important and for this project to have its integrity whilst not compromising others, keeping anonymity at this stage is considered to be the best strategy in maintaining both.  Finally, before we move forward, this is not supposed to be an academic piece of work and is most definitely not attached to any academic qualification being taken by myself. For context: I am working in a role similar to that of an Advanced Practit
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