Yesterday I was invited to look through the work of a class following our Applied Business GCSE scheme. Privacy rules normally prevent me from doing this, so it’s a real privilege to be allowed to have a root around. One thing I discovered was a pattern of two students who often got the same marks…

Whilst the roots of elearning lie in the US military, current developments are driven by a very diverse international group that collaborates under the auspices of the International Standards Organisation’s Joint Technical Group SC36. I keep a watching brief on this through my membership of the BSI committee (IST/43) that feeds British contributions into the…

Reuters – wild cheering today greeted the official launch of SCORM 2004 (the excitingly-renamed SCORM 1.3) amidst all the pomp and splendour of the ADL court. World leaders got themselves interviewed in front of national monuments about it, Romania declared today a national holiday and the Royal Mint minted a special commemorative coin. The most…

According to Ananova this morning, the CBI is still stuck in the “Vocational education is for thickies” belief system that even the notoriously right-wing IOD grew out of two years ago. I’d invite the CBI to investigate whether they still have a sign on their door saying “tradesmen use rear entrance”, and if so whether…

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