{"id":3292,"date":"2020-02-06T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2020-02-06T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:07:37","slug":"2020-computing-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/2020-computing-conference-report\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Computing Conference report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s annual Computing Conference took place yesterday, at the Stirling Court Hotel in the grounds of the University of Stirling. It was the biggest Computing Conference that we&#8217;ve ever held, with almost 160 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/20200205_1011422-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3293 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1011422-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"Audience view of keynote presentations from Judy Robertson\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>The event commenced with two keynote presentations from Judy Robertson, of Edinburgh University, and Medlinda Matthews-Clarkson of CodeClan. The remainder of the day was spent in workshops which covered a number of topics including cyber security, data science, National Qualifications, vocational qualifications, and digital literacy.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/20200205_1221142-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3295 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1221142-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"2020 Computing Conference audience watching presentation\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/20200205_1227132-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3296 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20200205_1227132-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"Computing Conference audience watching the West College Scotland presentation\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>The event will be formally evaluated but, from informal conversations, it appeared to be a success. All of the presentations are <a href=\"mailto:Jenna.Vallance@sqa.org.uk\">available from Jenna<\/a> on request. Please <a href=\"mailto:computing@sqa.org.uk\">contact the team<\/a> if you would like to follow up on anything from yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s annual Computing Conference took place yesterday, at the Stirling Court Hotel in the grounds of the University of Stirling. It was the biggest Computing Conference that we&#8217;ve ever held, with almost 160 people in attendance. The event commenced with two keynote presentations from Judy Robertson, of Edinburgh University, and Medlinda Matthews-Clarkson of CodeClan. The remainder of the day was spent in workshops which covered a number of topics including cyber security, data science, National Qualifications, vocational qualifications, and&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\/3292","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=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}