Hi Robert
Yes - there is remarkable response. Sorry to hear about Joanna Bull. I
never met the lady but was an admirer of her work.
Having generated the beginnings of a discussion, I would hate to stifle it
with too much attention to protocol and formality. At this stage at least I
view ALL contributions as worthwhile. After all, most anything is better
than lists of conference dates :-)
Best Wishes
Alan C
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From: Robert Harding [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 28 September 2004 12:07
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Subject: Re: Anyone interested...
Hello All
This is certainly a surprising burst of activity on this line -
thanks to Alan Cummings for sparking it off. But at the risk of
revealing myself to be an old-stager, I have to say that there's a
distinct impression in the exchanges that not everyone is aware of
the 'state of the art' on CAA. One advantage of conferences is that
it is possible to get a sense of this - but for those who don't "do"
conferences there's a great deal of published info about CAA and the
issues. I'm not saying that this list discussion is about to
reinvent everything from scratch - but there isn't much I have read
so far that lets me see where the issues everyone wants to discuss
key into the published record.
Here's a starting point - the CAA Centre website and the "Blueprint
for Computer-assisted Assessment" by Joanna Bull (who sadly died this
year) and Colleen McKenna - see http://www.caacentre.ac.uk/bp/. The
CAA Centre did not get continuation funding but the annual CAA
conference (if I'm allowed to mention that c-word again) is very much
alive and well and has a website with current and past proceedings
at http://www.caaconference.com/.
You can all jump on me if you want and say you are already familiar
with this, but at least this might help to determine where everyone
is starting from.
On the mystery second thread, Graham Lewis' "great little device. I
cannot imagine living without it! " - what is it??
Robert Harding
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