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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT Assessment Tomorrow: e-Assessment in Vocational and Professional Education, Training and Qualifications - Conference – 21st November 2013 – Birmingham.
The world of vocational and professional qualifications faces the challenges, of meeting the expectations of learners, industry and government in an era of rapidly changing technologies and systems.
The impact on awarding organisations, assessment bodies, sector skills organisations, colleges, training providers and professional bodies will be profound.
The conference will take managing the effective use of e-assessment in Vocational, Technical and Professional Qualifications, Education and Training as its focus and looks at how technology is delivering benefits for the learner, provider, sector and awarding organisation.
0915 Welcome and Chair’s Opening Address by Bob Gomersall, Chairman BTL Group and Virtual College
0920 Understanding what learners and stakeholders require and expect
Keynote opening address and overview presentations
Patrick Craven, City and Guilds, Keynote address
Allan Perry, WJEC
Sector Skills Council speaker to be confirmed
The e-Assessment Association
1045 Coffee Break
1100 Innovation built on Experience and Good Practice
Denis Saunders and Geoff Chapman, Calibrand
Jeremy Carter, BTL, “Developing Solutions”
Oliver Chesher, Galibier PR "Communications: how social media changed everything."
1230 Lunch
1330 Integration with Learning and Training
Chris Rowe, Managing Director, LJCREATE
Matt Wingfield, MD, TAG Assessment and Charlotte Bosworth, Director of Skills and Employment OCR “Capturing and Assessing Practical Sills”
John Gordon, Opus Learning
1445 Tea Break
1500 Crossing Boundaries
Mark Robinson-Sivyer, Exams on Demand, “Going Mobile”
Paul Ballard and John Bendel, 3DI, ‘Working Internationally – the challenges of language’
1600 Closing Address and closure – Chair
Come along and help us examine some of these profound changes and the impact they are having on both formative and summative assessment. The fee for the conference is £190 per delegate + VAT.
Bookings can be made online at www.e-vocational.co.uk.
We trust you or one of your colleagues will be able to join us for what will certainly prove to be an invaluable and thought-provoking event.
Jeff Ross
Director, Assessment Tomorrow
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Telephone: +44 (0) 7785 92039
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