External Links
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Assessment & Qualifications Alliance
+AQA is an educational charity and our aim is to bring out the best in students and teachers by providing services that lead to inspiring lessons and great learning.
We are the leading provider of GCSEs and A-levels and our qualifications are used in most secondary schools and colleges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Our qualifications are also internationally recognised and are taught in 44 countries around the world.
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ALT - Association for Learning Technology
+ALT is the UK's leading membership organisation in the learning technology field. ALT’s purpose is to ensure that use of learning technology is effective and efficient, informed by research and practice, and grounded in an understanding of the underlying technologies, their capabilities and the situations into which they are placed.
ALT does this by improving practice, promoting research, and influencing policy, through bringing together practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in learning technology. The main ALT publication is Research in Learning Technology, an international, quarterly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to research and good practice in the use of learning technologies. The publication is now an open access with current and previous copies freely available at http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt.
Currently ALT has as members over 900 individuals and over 225 organisations, including universities, colleges, Government departments, agencies, and software, hardware, and e-learning businesses. LJMU has organisational membership which means that members of staff can apply to participate in conferences and events at the institutional member rate.
Contact Alice Bird, a.bird@ljmu.ac.uk, for further information about ALT and it’s activities.
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Department for Business, Universities and Skills
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Edexcel
+http://www.edexcel.com/Pages/Home.aspx
Edexcel is part of Pearson, the world’s largest education business and the owner of the FT and Penguin.
Edexcel is the UK's largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications and testing to schools, colleges, employers and other places of learning in the UK and internationally.
In 2008, we delivered 8.2 million exam scripts in over 85 countries, with 4.3 million marked onscreen using the groundbreaking ePen technology. Our general qualifications taken internationally include GCSEs, AS and A Levels, IGCSEs and O Levels.
Our vocational qualifications include NVQ and BTEC from entry level to Higher National Diplomas. Our entire vocational portfolio had over one million registrations across 45 countries.
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External Examining
+UK Quality Code for Higher Education: Chapter B7 : External Examining, October 2011
QAA's Concerns Scheme: Guidance for External Examiners
Review of external examining arrangements in universities and colleges in the UK
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Higher Education Information Database for Institutions (HEIDI)
+HEIDI is the Higher Education Information Database for Institutions.
heidi is a web-based management information service that provides easy access to a rich source of quantitative data about higher education.
heidi is run by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The service aims to be self-funding and over one hundred and forty HE institutions currently subscribe to heidi.
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Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
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HEA
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Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
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JISC
+JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) is funded by the UK post-16 and higher education funding bodies and the Research Councils. The budget is spent on programmes or services that continue from previous years as well as on new activities commissioned and procured during the year. This includes the JISC e-Learning Programme which enables the development and effective use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching in universities and colleges, so that staff benefit from e-learning and students enjoy a more flexible learning experience. Services include JISC Legal and JISC Netskills offering respectively legal advice and training in the use of technologies.
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Learning Technology Providers
+Blackboard: http://www.blackboard.com/
Blackboard is the provider of the Universities virtual learning environment.
Blackboard has been dedicated to improving every aspect of the education experience for millions of learners and educators around the world. They work with thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations, providing them with tomorrow’s education experience today. The drive to make a difference and lead the evolution of education is at the core of what makes Blackboard solutions so effective.
Turningpoint: http://www.turningtechnologies.co.uk/
Turningpoint is LJMU's provide of classroom voting systems. TurningPoint software was launched in 2002, with the ground-breaking credit card size ResponseCard handsets following in 2004. Seamless integration with the most popular presentation tool in the world gave TurningPoint an almost non-existent learning curve which was great for people with more important things to do than learn software. Like you.
Turnitin: http://www.turnitin.com/
Turnitin improves the student writing cycle by preventing plagiarism and providing rich feedback to students. iParadigms, LLC got its start in 1996 by a group of UC Berkeley researchers who needed to monitor the recycling of research papers in their large undergraduate classes. Encouraged by their peers, they teamed up with a group of teachers, mathematicians, and computer scientists to form Plagiarism.org, the world's first Internet-based plagiarism prevention service.
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OFSTED
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Office of National Statistics (ONS)
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Quality Assurance Agency (QAA)
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Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
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Training & Development Agency for Schools (TDA)
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Unistats
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Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
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Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA)
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Universities UK (UUK)
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