Work Based Learning

• Extensive unit coverage: Student Book 1 covers 14 units including all the mandatory units, giving you the breadth to tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests, when combined with Student Book 2 .
• Functional Skills and Personal Learning and Thinking Skills are embedded in activities throughout the book.
• Achieve your potential: Assessment activities and grading tips in each unit give your students plenty of practice to deepen their knowledge and understanding, clearly explaining what they need for Pass, Merit and Distinction, so learners can achieve their best possible grade.
• Edexcel’s Assignment tips: Written by experts in the BTEC team, there’s invaluable unit-by-unit advice on how to get the most from your BTEC course.
• Put yourself in the professionals’ shoes: WorkSpace case studies take your learners into the real world of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context.
• Advice from former students: showing your learners how to make their BTEC experience a stepping stone to success.

Author Team:

Jenny Lawson

An experienced author and series editor of IT text books, draws on her extensive teaching and examining experiences and the many years spent in the IT software industry.

Karen Anderson 

An experienced teacher of ICT and Head of Department who specialises in multimedia, computer games design and eSafety.  With several books under her belt, she is also a popular speaker and workshop leader.

Jenny Phillips

Has worked as an IT professional, is an education consultant and Ofsted Inspector and has been an IT author for many years.

Andrew Smith 

A specialist in networking and systems support and currently working as an academic at the Open University. He is the senior verifier for BTEC IT.

Richard McGill

Has been writing IT books part-time for many years alongside his work as a college tutor delivering IT Practitioner qualifications.

Alan Jarvis

Has been an IT lecturer in FE colleges for over 15 years. He has written material for the 2010 BTEC IT suite of qualifications and was involved with Edexcel BTEC training events.

Alan Kaye

Has spent over 11 years as a teacher in secondary schools and FE colleges. He was responsible for the development of occupational and vocational IT at Edexcel and he currently holds the post of Stakeholder Partnerships Manager at Edexcel.  

Daniel Richardson 

Currently ICT programme leader for a sixth form college and has been lecturing in sixth form and further education for several years teaching a wide variety of BTEC National and First units.

David Atkinson-Beaumont

Works as a manager in a large FE college in the North West of England and has written QFS unit specifications for the current BTEC IT qualifications.

• Extensive unit coverage: Student Book 2 covers 10 optional units, giving you the breadth to tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests, when combined with Student Book 1.
• Functional Skills and Personal Learning and Thinking Skills are embedded in activities throughout the book.
• Achieve your potential: Assessment activities and grading tips in each unit give your students plenty of practice to deepen their knowledge and understanding, clearly explaining what they need for Pass, Merit and Distinction, so learners can achieve their best possible grade.
• Edexcel’s Assignment tips: Written by experts in the BTEC team, there’s invaluable unit-by-unit advice on how to get the most from your BTEC course.
• Put yourself in the professionals’ shoes: WorkSpace case studies take your learners into the real world of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context.
• Advice from former students: showing your learners how to make their BTEC experience a stepping stone to success.

Author Team:

Karen Anderson 

An experienced teacher of ICT and Head of Department who specialises in multimedia, computer games design and eSafety.  With several books under her belt, she is also a popular speaker and workshop leader.

Jenny Phillips

Has worked as an IT professional, is an education consultant and Ofsted Inspector and has been an IT author for many years

Richard McGill

Has twenty years experience of BTEC National Diploma IT both as a lecturer and course leader. He has written BTEC unit course specifications and support materials for Edexcel as well as working as an External Verifier (EV) and Standards Verifier (SV) in the NSS process. This is Richard’s ninth computing text book.

Daniel Richardson

Currently ICT programme leader for a sixth form college and has been lecturing in sixth form and further education for several years teaching on a wide variety of BTEC National and First units.

David Atkinson-Beaumont

Works as a manager in a large FE college in the North West of England and has written QFS unit specifications for the current BTEC IT qualifications.

Allan Kaye

Has spent over 11 years as a teacher in secondary schools and FE colleges. He was responsible for the development of occupational and vocational IT at Edexcel and he currently holds the post of Stakeholder Partnerships Manager at Edexcel.  

Jenny Lawson

An experienced author and series editor of IT text books, draws on her extensive teaching and examining experiences and the many years spent in the IT software industry.

• Save planning time: A scheme of work and lesson plan for each unit, plus PowerPoint presentations help you make the most of your planning time — use them as they stand or edit them to suit your needs.
• Inspirational lesson ideas: A variety of activities for use with assignments - or as a starter stimulus for group discussion - to support and stretch your learners. Photocopy them as many times as you need.
• It’s easy to update your VLE with BTEC resources: All schemes of work, lesson plans and activity sheets are stored on a FREE VLE disk in the Teaching Resource Pack, so you can transfer whatever you need onto your VLE in just a couple of easy steps.
• Engage-Stimulate-Motivate with @t work interactive activitiesand video case studies featuring industry professionals, to motivate your learners and help your lessons stay lively and up to date.
• All the help you need: with support for delivering the new specification and new materials to support your learners through Pass, Merit and Distinction, so you and your students get the most from BTEC.

Author Team:

Jenny Lawson

An experienced author and series editor of IT text books, draws on her extensive teaching and examining experiences and the many years spent in the IT software industry.

Karen Anderson 

An experienced teacher of ICT and Head of Department who specialises in multimedia, computer games design and eSafety.  With several books under her belt, she is also a popular speaker and workshop leader.

Jenny Phillips

Has worked as an IT professional, is an education consultant and Ofsted Inspector and has been an IT author for many years.

Andrew Smith 

A specialist in networking and systems support and currently working as an academic at the Open University. He is the senior verifier for BTEC IT.

Richard McGill

Has been writing IT books part-time for many years alongside his work as a college tutor delivering IT Practitioner qualifications.

Alan Jarvis

Has been an IT lecturer in FE colleges for over 15 years. He has written material for the 2010 BTEC IT suite of qualifications and was involved with Edexcel BTEC training events.

Alan Kaye

Has spent over 11 years as a teacher in secondary schools and FE colleges. He was responsible for the development of occupational and vocational IT at Edexcel and he currently holds the post of Stakeholder Partnerships Manager at Edexcel.  

Daniel Richardson 

Currently ICT programme leader for a sixth form college and has been lecturing in sixth form and further education for several years teaching a wide variety of BTEC National and First units.

David Atkinson-Beaumont

Works as a manager in a large FE college in the North West of England and has written QFS unit specifications for the current BTEC IT qualifications.