Money has been made available to “e-enable” Higher National qualifications – including Computing/IT awards. It’s early days so I’m not sure about the precise details but some of these awards will have e-learning and e-assessment material to support them. I’ll post more news when I have it. Speaking of e-assessment, there’s a new e-assessment blog and an old e-assessment community that might be of interest to you.
Read moreRead more about E-enabling HNsA letter has been sent to centres today to inform people about a forthcoming launch event for a range of new awards relating to Computer Networking and Multimedia. The event will take place on 10 September. More information here where you can also register. If you’re interesting in Networking qualifications, please subscribe to the Internetworking online community.
Read moreRead more about Launch eventsThe Convenor of the Validation Panel for HNC Computing has today agreed that the Panel’s conditions have now been met. So the award is now validated! More information on the HN Computing forum.
Read moreRead more about HNC Computing is now validated!The Accreditation Unit formally approved the new SVQs in Using Information Technology today. These new awards will be available to centres from 1 August. They’re based on the new National Occupational Standards, defined by the E-Skills Sector Skills Council, which are more flexible than the previous Standards. We’re also working on revising the Practitioner Standards and these will be available to centres from 1 January 2005. You can keep up-to-date with developments by subscribing to the SVQ online community. We’re…
Read moreRead more about SVQs accreditedWeb logs (“blogs“) are really taking off. They’ve been popular among Net-heads for some time but they’re now going mainstream. They were originally used as online diaries (and they still are) but they’re now finding all sorts of alternative uses. Blogs are becoming particularly popular as a sort of alternative news medium – and some stories are breaking on the blogosphere before they appear on TV or in print. Lots of famous people have a blog. There’s a blog search engine. Even…
Read moreRead more about Blogs in educationThe validation of the new suite of awards relating to e-learning and e-assessment was delayed to give the development team more time to finalise the new awards. The validation was scheduled to take place in June but will now take place in September. The suite of awards is called E-Qualifications and includes specialist qualifications in e-learning (such as the Advanced Certificate in E-Learning: Production) and e-assessment (such as the Advanced Certificate in E-Assessment). You can find out more by subscribing…
Read moreRead more about E-QualificationsLearning & Teaching Scotland has recently launched a suite of resources to support core skills. The resources to support IT look very good and are available in PC and Mac formats. You can use them interactively (online) or download them.
Read moreRead more about Online resources to support IT core skillsI attended the 8th International CAA Conference this week which was held at Loughborough University. Almost 200 people from all over the world attended and the event covered a wide range of issues relating to e-assessment. This is my second visit to the Conference and the standard was as high as last year. There was an excellent keynote lecture from Randy Bennett of ETS which is responsible for the SAT tests in the States. His talk focussed on the operational…
Read moreRead more about 8th International CAA ConferenceJISC organised the first international conference on plagiarism which was held at St James Park (the home of Newcastle United). Over 100 people attended. Most attendees were from Higher Education but there were representatives from a couple of English FE colleges. It was a fascinating event which covered every conceivable aspect of plagiarism. The event attracted considerable media attention . I learnt a great deal from the conference and plan to update my FAQ once I have time.
Read moreRead more about Plagiarism ConferenceI visited Aberdeen today to discuss PC Passport with a number of Head Teachers, Local Education Authority staff and SQA Co-ordinators. PC Passport is very popular in Aberdeenshire (it must be the low cost 😉 and the meeting was to discuss support materials and using PC Passport for teacher training. It sounds like most Aberdeenshire schools will be offering Passport next year. More information on the PC Passport online forum.
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