2010 IMS Global Learning Impact Awards and !Dea10

Well this proves the point! I am not a very good blogger given that it is 12 months since my last post. My excuse is that we get very busy doing our QTI stuff plus our day job and I forget to add progressive developments to this Blog.

However, this year we were successful in the Australian round of the IMS Global Learning Impact awards that were hosted by Link Affliates at their

!Dea10 conference in Melbourne, see http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/idea10/events/lia10.html

Following this we were lucky enough to be awarded the right to contest the Global Learning Impact Awards in Long Beach California. We were awarded a Bronze Award in the "Established Innitiatives" section.

Our colleagues from TAFE NSW CLI with their Mobilae product were recipients of a Silver Award in the "New and R&D Innitiatives", whilst Education.au were recipients of a Bronze Award for their Personal/Professional Development Network in the same category. Congratulations to Paul Wray and Gerry Leeson respectively on their great achievements.

See http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2010/lia2010winners.html

Our entry was for both the Tasmanian Polytechnic and Skills Institute with this years entry covering the 2007 QTImPlayer, which we extended to now run on the iPhone in 2010, as well as, adding GURU, our online recognition system to our QTI journey. GURU was a critical part in our entry as it proved our capability in system integration and interoperability utilising our SMS, Equella as our ePortfolio and QTI tool repository, Compass as our assessment repository linked to NTIS, our National Training Information System, to ensure all QTI assessment and recognition tools are Training Package (curriculum) compliant.

I extend many thanks to both Julian Ebeli and Stephen Brain for their untiring development work, Stephen in QTI and Julian in GURU.

I also acknowledge the contibutions of Marcus Bowles of Working Futures, Marcus Ragus, Christopher Griffin, Mick Burn and Nathan Cox of the Skills Institute and Polytechnic in this research and development. As well I acknowledge the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, Link Affiliates, IMS and eWorks for their financial and standards support.

As well, our projects would never have succeeded without the support and R&D provided by the Learning Edge International ensuring that Equella could accommodate our visions.