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Prof Cliff Beevers, e-Assessment Association
Geoff Chapman, Director, Calibrand
Gavin Cooney, MD learnosity;
Mike Dearing, Learning Solutions department, City & Guilds
Ruth Goddard, Director, AQA
Bob Gomersall, Chairman, BTL
Chris Hedges – Policy Manager, Home Office UK Border Agency
Dale Hinch, Edexcel
Graham Hudson, DRS
Prof . Phil John, Scholar Programme, Heriot Watt Unviersity
Stuart Jones, Abel Consultancy
Prof. Richard Kimbell, Goldsmiths, London
Simon Lebus, Group Chief Executive, Cambridge Assessment
Bryan Mathers, Learning Assistant
Susan V. McLaren, University of Edinburgh
Martin Ripley, 21st Century Learning
Denis Saunders, Chair, Calibrand
Linda Steedman, MD, eCom Scotland
Andrew Stone, Assessment Development department, City & Guilds
Julie Swan, Ofqual (KEYNOTE SPEAKER)
Matt Wingfield, TAG Learning
Matthew White, Ufi/Learndirect
Peter Wilson, NIACE
John Winkley, AlphaPlus Consultancy
Day One 17th March 2010
Colin Deal, Examware
A career spent mainly in the British computer industry which has covered both system and business development, in the UK and internationally. For the last twelve years has concentrated on the application of computers to the delivery of exams, initially the secure certification exams for professionals within the computer sector itself, and then the adoption of such approaches by the Financial Services sector, the Driving Standards Agency, and the Construction Industry’s Health and Safety certifications. Together, these exams represent annual volumes approaching 2 million, so are still dwarfed by the potential that exists in other sectors, which has yet to be exploited and on which his current activities are mainly focused.
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Simon Lebus, Group Chief Executive, Cambridge Assessment
Simon Lebus has been Group Chief Executive of Cambridge Assessment for seven years and is also Chairman of the OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA) Exam Board. Simon is a Bye-Fellow of Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge, and serves on the Board of the Faculty of Education, as well as being a member of the Management Committee of the University’s Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technology. Simon graduated from Oxford where he studied Modern History for six years, first as an undergraduate and then as a research student. After that he worked for eight years in the City as an investment banker where he was involved in corporate finance and capital markets advisory work specialising in the then communist Eastern Europe. In 1989 he moved into industry where he spent several years in a number of different senior management positions before joining Cambridge Assessment in 2002.
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John Winkley Alphaplus Consulting
John is an experienced e-learning and e-assessment business manager with a track record of business growth in learning technologies. He has specialised in developing innovative systems for education and assessment, working with a range of public and private sector clients through the four companies he has helped to build over the last 12 years: BTL Group Ltd, The Virtual College plc., 3Square Solutions Ltd, and AlphaPlus. His consultancy work includes e-strategy projects for SQA (e-strategy, item banking, on-screen Higher Exams, the SOLAR project) Becta (Digital Content Strategy, The E-assessment Readiness Review, e-Portfolio Strategy, The Schools Open Source Programme), JISC (Expert Consultant to the e-Learning Programme, the e-assessment glossary, ePortfolio developments), QCA (various e-assessment development, delivery and regulation projects), Edexcel (accessibility), and the Driving Standards Agency (Driving Theory Test). He is a member of the Chartered institute of Educational Assessors and a board member of the e-Assessment Association.
Gavin Busuttil-Reynaud, Alphaplus Consulting
Gavin is a professional engineer with a successful track record in the UK and the USA as a process manager responsible for extracting business value from major IT investments through process redesign, system integration, innovation and training. Gavin joined AlphaPlus Consultancy in 2006 concentrating on the role of ICT in delivering value through innovation in learning and assessment. Gavin has worked on both policy and development projects for a wide range of public and private organisations, including QCA, National Assembly for Wales (DECWL), LTScotland, BECTA, JISC, the BBC and Edge on topics ranging from development guidelines to ensure accessibility of e-assessment, through the impact on regulation of qualifications arising from the use of e-assessment, to the use of e-portfolios to demonstrate wider achievements of young people. The common thread has been establishing effective partnerships between education professionals and the technical community to achieve innovation in teaching and assessment methods and tools.
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Professor Philip John, Heriot Watt University
Phillip was born in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales into a mining family. He is currently Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Science and Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. In the thirty-five years that he has been with Heriot-Watt he has published over 150 papers and eight patents and supervised 28 PhDs and had extensive learning and teaching experience. Ten years ago he led the Chemistry team in the creation of e-learning materials inside the SCHOLAR courseware (http://scholar.hw.ac.uk). Since 2002 he has managed the SCHOLAR programme, and is Chair of the legal consultative body (the SCHOLAR Forum), which delivers complete Higher and Advanced Higher e-learning courses to students in virtually every state secondary school in Scotland, the independent sector and FE Colleges. The SCHOLAR team has successfully integrated the research findings of the PASS-IT assessment programme into the SCHOLAR courseware in over 20 subjects in mathematics, science, business and modern languages and represents a major deployment of formative e-assessment. He has been a member of the interim Management Board of the e-Assessment Association since its inception in 2006 and is currently Deputy Chairman of eAA.
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Dr I R Gomersall B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Phys., M.Inst.P., FRSA. Bob Gomersall is Chairman and founder of BTL Group Ltd. (set up in 1985) and Virtual College Group plc (set up in 1995). The focus of BTL’s work is on Learning and Assessment Systems and Content. Virtual College specialises in work based and online training. Bob is also Chairman of the Advanced Digital Institute, which he started developing in 2002, Chairman of the Yorkshire Forward Digital Cluster Board, and a member of the Airedale Partnership Board. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and the universities of Durham and Bristol. He has worked as a Theoretical Physicist (at the Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart) and as a teacher of physics (at Manchester and Bradford Grammar Schools). He was Head of Physics at Bradford Grammar School before going full-time into business. He and his wife (who is a Medical General Practitioner in Bradford) have four children, 3 boys and a girl, ranging in age from 15 to 27 years old.
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Denis Saunders – Founder and Managing Director, Calibrand
Calibrand’s Founder and Managing Director, Denis has developed Calibrand the currency for talent® into a leading e-Assessment solutions organisation that operates internationally. Calibrand’s ‘e-Assessment anytime, anywhere and on any device’ ethos has been successful in diverse global markets such as financial services regulation, government compliance, medical revalidation, awarding bodies, corporate talent management and international IT certification.
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Graham Hudson, DRS
Graham Hudson is Global Business Leader for Electronic Marking at DRS. Graham has over twenty-five years’ experience of implementing and managing large-scale assessments within the UK, including the key stage national curriculum tests for QCA. At DRS, he currently manages the delivery of electronic marking services for over 8 million exam scripts for awarding bodies in the UK and internationally. The importance of improving marking accuracy and reliability are at the forefront of DRS’ work in this sector through the use of new technologies.
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Gavin Cooney is founder and CEO of Learnosity, a specialist mobile learning and e-Assessment solutions provider working with major public and private sector clients in Europe, Asia and Australasia. Working closely with New South Wales government client the NSW Board of Studies, Gavin leads a development team, which for the past four years has delivered Australia's first state wide mandatory online exam to almost 60,000 fifteen year olds over three days each November. Gavin also works closely with the Irish and Australian federal governments, delivering innovative phone based e-Assessments to examine spoken language abilities in students. Gavin is passionate about technology, and strives to continue to develop systems using the very latest technologies and assessment approaches. Since early 2007, he has spoken at various learning and assessment conferences in Ireland, the UK, Malaysia, India, Australia and the United States.. Prior to founding Learnosity, Gavin lectured Information Systems in University College Dublin
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Stuart Jones, Abel Consulting - details to follow
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Bryan Mathers, MD, Learning Assistant, ‘Maintaining QA in e-portfolios usage’
Bryan Mathers is the Managing Director of Learning Assistant Ltd. Learning Assistant have been delivering e-portfolios to Vocational Learning centres for over 7 years. Over 200 organisations currently use the Learning Assistant e-portfolio to deliver vocational qualifications in the UK and internationally. Bryan visits these organisations often, looking for ideas of how to make vocational learning fit the environment of the workplace, and the lives of those involved. Prior to working for Learning Assistant, Bryan worked for the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, developing their suite of commercial web-based tools.
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Linda Steedman MD, eCOM, ‘High Stakes Assessment is it worth the gamble” - details to follow
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Andrew Stone (Assessment Development department, City & Guilds)
Andrew Stone is a project manager in City & Guilds’ Assessment and Quality directorate, which is responsible for innovation in City & Guilds’ assessment and quality assurance practice. His work involves the creation and delivery of policy and guidelines, training sessions and workshops. Andrew also has a good deal of general experience in the education sector, which includes product development, instructional design and testing for an e-learning provider and teaching geography in a secondary school.
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Mike Dearing (Learning Solutions department, City & Guilds)
Mike Dearing is a project manager in City & Guilds Learning Solutions directorate and is responsible for supervising and delivering the ICT User simulations. Mike has extensive experience within the ICT product development and service delivery environment, particularly in the realm of document management software.
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Professor Cliff Beevers Professor Cliff Beevers OBE taught Mathematics for over thirty years at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and was granted the title Professor Emeritus in 2005. Cliff worked for over two decades in the area of Computer Aided Assessment mainly in the field of Mathematics. Through projects like CALM, MathWise, Interactive PastPapers, SCHOLAR and PASS-IT he sought to enhance the student experience in both secondary and tertiary education. Cliff is currently the Chairman of the burgeoning e-Assessment Association.
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Day Two 18th March 2010
Quality, Transparency and Accountability in e-Assessment
Kim Catcheside, BBC Radio 4, Education Correspondent
Kim Catcheside is the education and social affairs correspondent for BBC Radio, appearing frequently on flagship programmes like " Today ". She's specialised in social policy for radio and television for more than fifteen years. Kim began life as a local radio reporter in Sheffield and then Bedfordshire. She then cut her teeth in the local and regional Parliamentary Unit, shouting questions at Margaret Thatcher in the days before the bomb proof gates went up. One of these questions elicited the reply " we are a grandmother " the Royal overtones of which almost certainly heralded the Prime Ministers fall. Kim lives in central London with her husband and two children.
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Julie Swan, Head of Regulatory Policy, Ofqual
Julie Swan joined Ofqual as Head of Regulatory Policy in 2008. Her previous roles have included director of development with the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education. In this role she led the work to develop the academic infrastructure for higher education, recommended by the Dearing inquiry into higher education, including a code of practice for assuring quality and standards, subject benchmarks and the framework for higher education qualifications for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. More recently she was head of education for the Law Society of England and Wales where she was responsible for the regulation of solicitors' education and training both leading to and after qualification. The regulation policy team which Julie heads leads on a wide range of policy developments within Ofqual including the QCF and access to qualifications
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Ruth Goddard, Director, Head of AQA’s E-assessment Programme
Ruth has been leading AQA’s TEAL (Technology Enabled Assessment for Learners) programme since its inception in 2007. She has been involved in developing both a dialogue with stakeholders in the future of assessment and the products which will meet their needs and aspirations. She is Assistant Director for Processing at AQA’s Guildford office and has worked with the organisation and it’s predecessor since 1995. Since joining AQA after working in industry and local Government, Ruth has been involved in the delivery of National Curriculum Tests, General Qualifications and a wide variety of projects including the introduction of electronic marking and mark capture. She spoke at this conference in 2006 with a session entitled “Technophobes to Technofans”.
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Peter Wilson, NIACE
Peter Wilson is a consultant working for both QCDA and Ofqual to support the implementation of the Qualifications and Credit Framework. He was closely involved in the development of the QCF and has written and spoken about credit systems for many years. His new book, Big Idea, Small Steps traces the development of the QCF over the past 30 years.
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Matthew White – Test Operations Manager, UFI
For the last 4 years Matthew has managed the Test Operations team at Ufi (learndirect). He has managed the Life in the UK Test service on behalf of the UK Border Agency since its launch, as well as being responsible for Skills for Life test delivery. From 2000 to 2005, Matthew was based in Brazil, managing product development, operations and commercial teams in the e-Learning / e-Assessment area. Focusing on the B2B sector, he worked closely with such companies as Nokia, Kodak, Embraer, Ambev, CSN and Halliburton to establish e-Learning and e-Assessment in their organisations.
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Chris Hedges – Policy Manager, Home Office UK Border Agency
Chris Hedges is a Policy Manager in the UK Border Agency’s Immigration Policy Unit. He has many years experience in developing integration strategies, including the UK’s English language and citizenship knowledge requirements, and worked with Ufi to ensure its computer-based test system met the policy imperatives. Chris has just completed his term as Chair of the Council of Europe Migration Committee and is a member of European Commission expert groups on integration and intercultural dialogue.
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Geoff Chapman, Director, Calibrand Geoff has over 10 years e-Assessment experience working on projects such as the UK Citizenship Test, Construction Skills, Microsoft, TOEFL, Driving Standards Agency and the Irish Road Safety Authority. He has delivered e-Assessment white papers and speeches in the USA, Europe and the UK.
Geoff holds Chartered Marketer status with the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is an active member of the e-Assessment Association and E-ATP.
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John Winkley, Alphaplus Consulting
John is an experienced e-learning and e-assessment business manager with a track record of business growth in learning technologies. He has specialised in developing innovative systems for education and assessment, working with a range of public and private sector clients through the four companies he has helped to build over the last 12 years: BTL Group Ltd, The Virtual College plc., 3Square Solutions Ltd, and AlphaPlus. His consultancy work includes e-strategy projects for SQA (e-strategy, item banking, on-screen Higher Exams, the SOLAR project) Becta (Digital Content Strategy, The E-assessment Readiness Review, e-Portfolio Strategy, The Schools Open Source Programme), JISC (Expert Consultant to the e-Learning Programme, the e-assessment glossary, ePortfolio developments), QCA (various e-assessment development, delivery and regulation projects), Edexcel (accessibility), and the Driving Standards Agency (Driving Theory Test). He is a member of the Chartered institute of Educational Assessors and a board member of the e-Assessment Association.
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Richard Kimbell, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Richard Kimbell was the first professor of Technology Education in London University. He has taught technology in schools and been course director for undergraduate and postgraduate courses of teacher education. In 1990, he founded the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU) at Goldsmiths College London as the base from which to manage an expanding research portfolio. In the subsequent period, research sponsors include research councils (eg ESRC, NSF [USA]), industry (eg LEGO, BP), government departments (eg DfES, DfID), as well as professional and charitable organisations (eg Engineering Council, Royal Society of Arts, Design Museum). His current research is centred on an e-assessment project for the DCSF/Becta and QCA that involves the use of hand-held digital tools to support 15 yr old learners to create virtual design portfolios. Kimbell has published widely in the field including three single-authored books, several books in which he edited contributions, as well as reports commissioned by UK Government Departments, the Congress of the United States, UNESCO and NATO. He has written and presented television programmes and regularly lectures internationally. He is a consultant to the National Academy of Engineering and the National Science Foundation in the USA, and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Stockholm. His latest book “Researching Design Learning”, (with Prof Kay Stables) has just been published by Kluwer/Springer.
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Matt Wingfield and members of the TAG Development eScape Team
Matt Wingfield, TAG Developments. Matt has over nineteen and a half years experience within the UK education market. This includes seven years as a primary school teacher and ICT Coordinator, a further nineteen months as Director of Education for the Kingswood ICT Study Centre Group, and most recently over eleven years for TAG Learning Ltd., suppliers of innovative educational software and assessment for learning solutions for schools and colleges. Matt is dedicated to supporting educators and students in the effective use of e-assessment systems to develop standards and drive educational excellence. Since 2008, Matt has also held the position of Membership Secretary for the e-Assessment Association
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Susan V. McLaren, Senior Lecturer (Design & Technology Education), Department of Curriculum Research and Development, University of Edinburgh. Susan teaches on the B.Ed Design and Technology, PGDE Design and Technology programmes and contributes towards the PGDE Primary Programme. Her research interests are related to the development of principles, practice and values in Design and Technology Education e.g. pedagogies to embed principles of design for sustainability; issues of transformational change and altered consciousness; perceptions of personal technological capability of student and practicing teachers; discriminators of creativity and progression. Her curriculum development and support materials include those devised to suit specific CPD requests from primary & secondary schools, and the local authorities. She has been involved in national initiatives for curriculum development for Learning Teaching Scotland
and the Scottish Qualification Authority. Susan is a consultant for school design and technology TV programmes and authoring supporting web notes and content editor for school texts.
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Dale Hinch, Edexcel. ‘I have worked in various teams within Edexcel over the last 8 years, with a particular focus on e-assessment since about 2005. I currently work in the Research, Design and Innovation team as e-Assessment Development Project Manager and have been involved with the e-scape project for more than four years. Edexcel is currently running a pilot of the e-scape system within the Creative & Media Diploma. I am particularly interested in defining how technology assisted learning and assessment can provide learners with the appropriate skills for an information-based economy’
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