Gamified blended learning programme
Food safety eLearning modules for safefood
The Learning Rooms worked with safefood to deliver food safety eLearning modules that can be used in the classroom or as part of a blended learning programme.
About safefood
safefood promotes awareness and knowledge of food safety and nutrition on the island of Ireland. To do this they:
- Provide healthy eating and food safety advice to the public
- Carry out research into food safety
- Promote scientific co-operation and links between laboratories
- Provide independent assessment of the food supply
- Carry out surveillance of diet-related disease.
The Challenge
safefood needed to provide a set of engaging learning resources to enable teachers to deliver food safety training. The programme needed to equip students with the knowledge to undertake a Primary Certificate in Food Hygiene, certified by The Environmental Health Officer’s Association (EHAI). safefood had an existing resource that needed to be updated and they had access to food science experts to guide new content in areas, such as food allergens. safefood required a digital learning specialist to design a blended learning approach that would deliver the learning outcomes, engage the students and provide a resource that enabled home economics teachers to easily roll out the safefood for Life programme within their school.
The Solution
The Learning Rooms partnered with safefood to help them develop the safefood for life programme that can be used in the classroom or as part of a blended learning programme. The ten 45-minute lessons cover the following topics:
- Food Hygiene – Why Bother?
- Food Contamination
- Food Delivery and Storage
- Food Preparation, Cooking and Service
- Personal Hygiene
- Design and Layout of Food Premises
- Cleaning and Pest Control
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)
- Food Allergies, Food Intolerance and Coeliac Disease.
Each lesson contains an eLearning module that uses animations, videos, quizzes and mini-games (such as word searches and matching activities) to teach and engage students. Accompanying the eLearning module is a teachers’ resource which provides additional research tasks and discussion topics for the classroom. Designed for all literacy levels, the modern, interactive lessons have achieved the NALA Plain English Mark.
The blended learning programme was also translated into Irish (Gaeilge).
The Learning Rooms transformed the safefood for life, food safety programme into an engaging, contemporary, and interactive eLearning resource that is suitable for post-primary learning environments. The resource allows students engage with the subject matter, in realistic settings, using features that effectively promote active learning. At the same time, it gives teachers the flexibility to create lessons specific to their classes needs and learning objectives.
