{"id":1074,"date":"2005-06-20T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2005\/06\/20\/visit-to-abertay-regarding-computer-games\/"},"modified":"2005-06-20T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T17:54:00","slug":"visit-to-abertay-regarding-computer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/visit-to-abertay-regarding-computer-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Abertay regarding computer games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a meeting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abertay.ac.uk\/\">Abertay University <\/a>today to discuss a local development relating to computer games. The Dundee-based <em>Access to Industry<\/em> programme wants to offer games-based curriculum to its students (mostly disadvantaged young people) and I was there to suggest suitable courses.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/computer-games-qualification.html\">Stow College&#8217;s recent award<\/a>. But I couldn&#8217;t offer many specific units relating to computer games (at NC or HN level). So it was agreed to take this forward with a view to creating specific interactive units at National and Higher National levels. This development has the support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillset.org\/\">SkillSet <\/a>which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillset.org\/interactive\/standards\/article_4101_1.asp\">standards relating to interactive media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will also link with the updating of the National Certificate portfolio which is about to be revised to include <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/blog-unit-is-now-available.html\">more up-to-date provision<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a meeting at Abertay University today to discuss a local development relating to computer games. The Dundee-based Access to Industry programme wants to offer games-based curriculum to its students (mostly disadvantaged young people) and I was there to suggest suitable courses. The meeting was interested in Stow College&#8217;s recent award. But I couldn&#8217;t offer many specific units relating to computer games (at NC or HN level). So it was agreed to take this forward with a view to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}