Digitalisation for Further Education providers
Located at the heart of the local business community,
further education (FE) colleges can use Shoestring to
bring digital innovation into companies.
The Shoestring for FE programme enhances learners work placements by offering a structured set of activities to realise digital projects that add real value to local businesses. This practical training is prepared to run alongside the college curricula of the academic year across six sessions.
Programme Sessions
Programme Sessions
Staff Briefing
This session is designed to understand Shoestring and its importance for local manufacturing SMEs, the opportunities Shoestring brings to FE students and how Shoestring solutions benefit manufacturers who adopted them.
Typical attendees of this session include:
- Principals
- Assistant Principals
- Assistant Directors
- Course co-ordinators
- Skills and Employability staff
- Industry and Work Placement staff
- Work Experience support officers
- Teachers and tutors
Students Briefing
This session is designed to introduce Shoestring, learn about different Shoestring solutions, understand which digitalization problems Shoestring solutions can solve, give examples of businesses who adopted them and provide a live demonstration of the technology.
Typical attendees of this session include:
- Learners
- Course co-ordinators
- Industry and Work Placement staff
- Teachers and tutors
Projects Scoping
This session is designed to scope low-cost digitalisation projects aimed at deploying Shoestring solutions in companies. This includes identifying digital needs, prioritization, solution selection as well as capturing use cases.
Typical attendees of this session include:
- Learners
- Course co-ordinators
- Company representatives
- Teachers and tutors
Hands-on
This is a practical activity aimed at college learners with support from college teaches and tutors. The goal of this session is to train learners to build and configure Shoestring solutions, to learn how to read and interpret data dashboards, to learn how to produce data files and to prepare learners before deploying solutions in companies.
Typical attendees of this session include:
- Learners
- Course co-ordinators
- Teachers and tutors
Deployment
This is a practical activity aimed at college learners with support from company staff. The goal of this session is to install in companies the Shoestring solutions built by learners. Learners would visit companies and guide engineers to install solutions and brief the company representatives on how to operate the solution dashboards.
Typical attendees of this session include:
- Learners
- Course co-ordinators
- Company staff
- Teachers and tutors
Evaluation
This is a presentation-based session aimed at college learners and college staff. The goal is for learners to present insights from data, communicate business benefits and impact from Shoestring solution deployments, and prepare a report for the companies involved in the programme.
Typical attendees of this session include:
- Learners
- Course co-ordinators
- Company staff
- Teachers and tutors
