E-Qualifications validation Originally uploaded by bobbyelliott. The validation event for the E-Qualifications suite of awardstook place today. The awards were validated subject to a couple of conditions (and a number of recommendations). The awards are: * Diploma in E-Learning Production * Diploma in E-Assessment * Advanced Diploma in E-Learning. The development team are delighted with this outcome. The conditions will improve the awards and are simple to address. We’re hoping to have the awards fully validated by mid-October and available…
Today’s edition of the Times Education Supplement (Scotland) includes an item on SQA’s links with Oracle – specifically the Oracle Academy programme. There’s a full page article in the newspaper and a small excerpt here. More details from Jane Richardson of Oracle.
Many schools and colleges are experimenting with blogs. But some teachers are a little concerned about their students using commercial blog sites (such as Blogger) since they have no control over what they do with their blogs. A new service can resolve this problem by giving teachers control over blogs. 21Publish allows teachers to become a blog portal. You control who can create a blog, what the blog can do, what’s in the blog – even what the blog looks…
HomeComputer Originally uploaded by bobbyelliott. Nothing really to do with this blog but couldn’t resist posting this picture. The caption is classic. Come to think of it, it looks a bit like my old BBC Model A.
IMGP0951 Originally uploaded by bobbyelliott. I attended an Oracle seminar this morning at their HQ in Edinburgh. Around 20 people attended including Head Teachers, Local Authority representatives and practicing teachers. Oracle is presently promoting its Oracle Academy programme in Scotland. There are currently five Scottish teachers involved in the initiative. These teachers have just completed a 10 week training programme (in Oracle technologies) – including a two week, hands-on training programme in UCLA. I’m working with Oracle to forge links…
Now that the HNC Computing award has been validated, the development team can turn their attention to the HND. After this morning’s launch event, the team met to discuss how to take this forward. Much of the HND development work has already been done but the team have to finalise things during the next few months. The target is to validate the award in December so that it’s available to centres from early next year. In addition to the traditional…
Internetworking Multimedia launch event Originally uploaded by bobbyelliott. The launch event for the new Internetworking and Multimedia awards was held today in the Stirling Highland Hotel. Around 60 people attended from various colleges across Scotland as well as representatives of national agencies such as the Scottish Executive and Learning & Teaching Scotland. Representives of Microsoft, Oracle and CompTIA also attended. The event went well and most people expressed their interest in offering one or other (or both) of these awards.…
I met with Jane Richardson of Oracle this morning to discuss next week’s seminars about the Oracle Academy programme. Jane has arranged two events next week – one in Edinburgh (Monday) and one in Glasgow (Wednesday) to update people about the programme. Six Scottish schools and colleges have signed up and several lucky teachers and lecturers have just finished a 10 week training programme (two weeks of which were spent in UCLA) to help them deliver the course. I’m speaking…
I set-up a hit-counter last week to monitor traffic on this blog. There has been 300 hits in a week. That’s an average of 60 per day. The traffic statistics are interesting. It takes time to maintain a blog and I wasn’t sure if it was worthwhile but it looks like it is.
A suite of qualifications relating to e-learning and e-assessment has been under development for the last year and a date has now been agreed for their validation. The validation event will take place on 29 September and will be held in the SQA offices in Glasgow. The Panel will be chaired by Andew Comrie of Lauder College. We’re excited about this development since it includes (what we think) is the world’s first national qualification in online assessment (the Diploma in…
