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What's new and exciting about this?

A new research tool to measure learning

Boot sculpture produced from poll tax demands by 'Jim' participant in Open Museum workshop in Glasgow

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The Generic Learning Outcomes (GLOs) are a new tool to help us to

  • Analyse our work and tell stories about its impact on individuals and communities
  • Talk to colleagues, funders, evaluators and policy-makers about learning in a language that they share and understand
  • Design better learning experiences and spaces that inspire people to learn
  • Reinforce for users the significance of their learning experiences.

The GLOs provide us with a framework for assessing evidence of learning and can be used to

  • Improve our approaches to evaluation
  • Analyse and draw conclusions about learning from existing data
  • Develop staff and governing bodies awareness of and practice in learning
  • Transform the way that we to talk to users and visitors about learning.

Download Jim's story to see how the GLOs can be applied to one person's learning experience 

Now go to next page to read further endorsements from pilot sites

Photo of Jo Rice, formerly Warwickshire Museums and Heritage Services

'We expect the use of the GLOs…to become common practice, embedded into our project planning and evaluation. It is a vocabulary through which we can describe what we achieve. The fact that this is being done across the country gives it great weight and credibility.'

Jo Rice,
formerly Warwickshire Museums and Heritage Services

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