Coming Up: News from the New Practices Projects
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Immersive e-learning: a model for delivering and assessing risk-based competencies
with Delia Bradshaw, Julie van der Klift and Brad Beach
Is it sometimes too ‘risky’ learning about risk in the workplace? Have you thought about using virtual technologies as an alternative? This session provides an overview of VERBL – virtual experience of risk-based learning – a framework for the implementation and embedding of immersive technologies for risk-based learning. VERBL was developed following a series of trials within the community services area using Second Life as a learning platform.
Extending the QTI mPlayer
with Peter Higgs and Sam Meredith
“In 2005 New Practices funded the development of the QTI Player for use in the then emerging mobile learning environment. This was a great leap forward for learning and assessment in the workplace. Since then the demand for on the job training and assessment has increased ten fold. With this teachers and assessors have been burdened with the need for both double handling of learning content including assessment tools and data when in the field. This project intends to extend the development and use of the QTI Player, that functions on hand held devices, to enable practitioners in the field to access content, assess students in their workplace, provide feedback and then upload the data in a secure way to the learning enterprises systems and eventually their Student Management System. The first project only covered the development of the QTI Player and did not cover in its scope the use of remote access and uploading of data to an organisational system.”
This presentation will advise attendees the re- development phase with the QTImPlayer in 2007, including an update on the advantages of using QTI in mobile learning and assessment. The project has made some ground breaking achievements to be poised to revolutionise “on the job” assessments that advantage enterprises and training organisations alike. Some of the achievements to date include:
- Creating and validating assessment tools to meet the new AQTF requirements.
- Converting the validated assessment tools to QTI packages.
- Re-developing the QTImPlayer of 2005 to meet the changes that have occurred in the IMS QTI standards.
- Trials with the QTImPlayer and the wireless technology enabling field activities in “on the job” assessment.
