Dominican College

In 2004, Dominican College were awarded the ET Sharing Practice-Laureate Status. They are keen to explore new imaginative ways of using ICT to enhance teaching and learning. 

Advice NI

Advice NI is a voluntary sector organisation providing a range of services in Northern Ireland to support a professional community advice and guidance service.  The centre has considered how it might use an e-portfolio system to address the challenges of delivering their NVQs across a range of geographic locations.

EAGIT

EAGIT is a long established private sector training provider based in Norwich.  They are primarily engaged in training for the engineering sector and run a wide range of programmes from working with schools 14-16, through apprenticeships to bespoke industry based training.

Dumfries and Galloway College

Dumfries and Galloway College is a large multisite FE college in south west Scotland.  It operates a range of traditional FE programmes for both 16+ students and adults. This includes the SQA Core Skills.  As with many schools and colleges in the UK, the college has been investigating ways to improve the integration of core skills in the vocational framework and to extend them to include employability skills and to raise learner achievement. 

EMP Awarding Body Limited

EMP Awarding Body Limited is a nationally recognised awarding body for National and Scottish Qualifications (NVQs/SVQs) for the extractive and mineral processing, mining, and waste processing industries.

North West Regional College

North West Regional College is one of six area-based colleges in Northern Ireland.  In the Care department many of the learners taking NVQs are in full-time, shift-based employment with small care sector organisations. The team has recognised for some time that to enable a more flexible approach to accessing the NVQs, they need to improve the use of technology

The Glass Qualifications Authority

The Glass Qualifications Authority (GQA) is the specialist awarding body for the glass industries covering organisations involved in the use of glass from manufacturing to installation of double glazing to replacement windscreens.  Using e-assessment they were meeting the challenge of working across a large geographical spread and managing their candidates accordingly.

Southern Regional College

Southern Regional College (SRC) is one of the six new area based colleges in Northern Ireland.  The college works from 6 campuses, including the main ones in Armagh, Newry and Portadown, as well as a large number of community based centres

Northumberland County Council Adult Learning Service

Northumberland County Council Adult Learning Service provides a wide range of programmes to adult learners in Northumberland, delivered in centres spread across the county.  The service has been engaged for some time in addressing how best to harness technology, where appropriate, to support learning and assessment.