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…
Web 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…
The 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…
Learning & 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.
I 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…