It is now over 12 months since the beginning of the first UK lockdown. Higher education institutions have had to adapt their widening access initiatives, move to online delivery and find new ways of engaging with learners. NEON will launch a report in June, “Moving Online – taking outreach into the digital age”. The report will consider the progress that has been made over the last year and the future landscape for online outreach as part of a more blended approach to widening access.
 
To help inform this report we would be grateful if you would complete the following survey. The closing date for responses is Friday 14th of May.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Organisation

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* 3. Job title

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* 4. Email

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* 5. How many learners have you reached since April 2020 via online outreach work

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* 6. If over 2000 and you have an approximate figure please can you state.

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* 7. With which groups have you focused your online outreach work:

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* 8. Has the distribution of your work across the groups in question 3 differed in your online outreach work to that you would have delivered face to face outreach work to?

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* 9. What online outreach work have you been delivering

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* 10. (Cont. from  Q9) Attainment raising work
If selected this online outreach work in question 9, please indicate which subjects you have delivered activities related to from the list below:

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* 11. Do you have examples of where online outreach has resulted in more effective engagement than when you were delivering face to face?

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* 12. To what extent do you think your online outreach work has contributed to the efforts of schools and colleges to address the learning loss their students have experienced as a result of the pandemic? If you believe that is has contributed to an extent can you describe how it has done so and the activity you have delivered that has enabled this contribution to be made?

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* 13. Have you any evidence of the impact of the online outreach that you have delivered? If you have such evidence would you be willing to share this with us?

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* 14. How have challenges that students and schools may have faced with access to digital devices/data or support to use devices impacted in your online outreach work?

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* 15. Have you used collaborative online outreach platforms, such as Uni4me, to support the usage and development of your work in this area?

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* 16. If so, which platform(s) have you used, and how useful have they been?

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* 17. Can you estimate what percentage of your delivery has been/will be by the following methods?

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* 18. What can the government and/or the Office for Students do to support higher education providers in delivering online outreach work effectively?

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* 19. What have the main benefits been for the learners you work with and for your organisation of the increased delivery of online outreach work that has happened since the first lockdown in March 2020?

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* 20. As part of the report NEON want to feature detailed case studies of innovative projects that are being delivered online where you either have evidence of impact or promising early signs that the project is meeting its desired impact. Do you have any such examples?

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