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Speakers at the Conference include
Professor Cliff Beevers Professor Cliff Beevers OBE taught Mathematics for over thirty years at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and was granted the title Professor Emeritus in 2005. Cliff worked for over two decades in the area of Computer Aided Assessment mainly in the field of Mathematics. Through projects like CALM, MathWise, Interactive PastPapers, SCHOLAR and PASS-IT he sought to enhance the student experience in both secondary and tertiary education. Cliff is currently the Chairman of the burgeoning e-Assessment Association
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Andrew Brown is a Development Manager for Learning and Teaching Scotland. He has spent the last 10 years working in a variety of roles in education in Scotland, from classroom teacher to education officer. He most recently moved from the role of Future Technologies Research Practitioner to work on Glow, the Scottish Schools Digital Network – potentially connecting every pupil, teacher and parent in the country.
www.ltscotland.org.uk and www.whereisab.co.uk
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Gavin Cooney is founder and CEO of Learnosity, a specialist mobile learning and e-Assessment solutions provider working with major public and private sector clients in Europe, Asia and Australasia. Working closely with New South Wales government client the NSW Board of Studies, Gavin leads a development team, which for the past four years has delivered Australia's first state wide mandatory online exam to almost 60,000 fifteen year olds over three days each November. Gavin also works closely with the Irish and Australian federal governments, delivering innovative phone based e-Assessments to examine spoken language abilities in students. Gavin is passionate about technology, and strives to continue to develop systems using the very latest technologies and assessment approaches. Since early 2007, he has spoken at various learning and assessment conferences in Ireland, the UK, Malaysia, India, Australia and the United States.. Prior to founding Learnosity, Gavin lectured Information Systems in University College Dublin
www.learnosity.com
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Dr I R Gomersall B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Phys., M.Inst.P., FRSA. Bob Gomersall is Chairman and founder of BTL Group Ltd. (set up in 1985) and Virtual College Group plc (set up in 1995). The focus of BTL’s work is on Learning and Assessment Systems and Content. Virtual College specialises in work based and online training. Bob is also Chairman of the Advanced Digital Institute, which he started developing in 2002, Chairman of the Yorkshire Forward Digital Cluster Board, and a member of the Airedale Partnership Board. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and the universities of Durham and Bristol. He has worked as a Theoretical Physicist (at the Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart) and as a teacher of physics (at Manchester and Bradford Grammar Schools). He was Head of Physics at Bradford Grammar School before going full-time into business. He and his wife (who is a Medical General Practitioner in Bradford) have four children, 3 boys and a girl, ranging in age from 15 to 27 years old.www.btl.com
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Iain Lowson joined HM Inspectorate of Education in 2002. Prior to that he taught and managed for 27 years in the secondary and college sectors in Scotland. Within HMIE, Iain has lead responsibility for evaluating and advising on the use of ICT for learning and teaching. He authored the recent HMIE report on ICT in Scottish education and is a member of the European SchoolNet programme that developed a common framework for evaluating the use of ICT in education. He is a member of the Colleges E-activity Steering Group
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Sheila Gordon, Flexible Assessment Co-ordinator, Aberdeen College. “ My job function is to promote, develop and manage flexible access to assessment. I oversee the College’s Assessment Centres, ensuring that all professional and vendor body assessment requirements are met, and work to develop the range of services offered by the Centres by liaising with third party online assessment providers. I work with College staff across the curriculum to implement the introduction of computer-based assessment in the College, whether off the shelf, eg SOLAR, or internally developed. In relation to technology supported learning and assessment I deliver staff development sessions on quiz and games software and plagiarism detection software, which enhance the formative element of learning, along with guidance on writing selected response questions. Where possible it is ensured that the assessment systems provided, eg question creating software and plagiarism detection software, are integrated with the College VLE. I also provide Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) services, in particular assessment on demand and credit transfer.”
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Susan V. McLaren, Senior Lecturer (Design & Technology Education), Department of Curriculum Research and Development, University of Edinburgh. Susan’s research interests are related to the development of principles, practice and values in Design and Technology Education e.g. pedagogies to embed principles of design for sustainability; issues of transformational change and altered consciousness; perceptions of personal technological capability of student and practicing teachers; discriminators of creativity and progression. Her key teaching areas are PGDE(Secondary)Design and Technology, BEd (Hons) Design and Technology. Her curriculum development and support materials include those devised to suit specific CPD requests from primary & secondary schools, and the local authorities. She has been involved in national initiatives for curriculum development for Learning Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Qualification Authority. Susan is a consultant for school design and technology TV programmes and authoring supporting web notes and content editor for school texts.
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Bryan Mathers is the Managing Director of Learning Assistant Ltd. Learning Assistant have been delivering e-portfolios to Vocational Learning centres for over 7 years. Over 200 organisations currently use the Learning Assistant e-portfolio to deliver vocational qualifications in the UK and internationally. Bryan visits these organisations often, looking for ideas of how to make vocational learning fit the environment of the workplace, and the lives of those involved. Prior to working for Learning Assistant, Bryan worked for the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, developing their suite of commercial web-based tools. www.learningassistant.com
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Martyn Ware is SQA’s Business Manager for CAA, a position he has held since SQA first established a dedicated CAA team in May 2003. Prior to this Martyn has worked in a number of areas of SQA’s operations including most recently managing some of its international activities. Martyn has an MBA from the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business. www.sqa.org.uk
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