Search results for author:"Niall Sclater"
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eLearning in the Cloud
Niall Sclater
International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 10–19
Elearning has grown rapidly in importance for institutions and has been largely facilitated through the “walled garden” of the virtual learning environment. Meanwhile many students are creating their own personal learning environments by combining...
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Putting Interoperability to the Test: Building a Large Reusable Assessment Item Bank
Niall Sclater; Mary MacDonald
Association for Learning Technology Journal Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2004) pp. 205–213
The COLA project has been developing a large bank of assessment items for units across the Scottish further education curriculum since May 2003. These will be made available to learners mainly via colleges' virtual learning environments (VLEs). Many ...
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User requirements of the “ultimate” online assessment engine
Niall Sclater; Karen Howie
Computers & Education Vol. 40, No. 3 (2003) pp. 285–306
As online computer assisted assessment (CAA) is adopted throughout education, the number of CAA systems proliferates. While a number of commercial systems are gaining in sophistication, no single package is universally appropriate. For those...
Language: English
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Building and testing a virtual university
C.David Whittington; Niall Sclater
Computers & Education Vol. 30, No. 1 (1998) pp. 41–47
As the number of students entering higher education increases along with the requirement for greater cost efficiency, the potential benefits of computer based learning (CBL) and computer based assessment (CBA) are great. The diversification into...
Language: English
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An E-Learning Framework for Assessment (FREMA)
Gary B. Wills; Christopher P. Bailey; Hugh C. Davis; Lester Gilbert; Yvonne Howard; Steve Jeyes; David E. Millard; Joseph Price; Niall Sclater; Robert Sherratt; Iain Tulloch; Rowin Young
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Vol. 34, No. 3 (June 2009) pp. 273–292
This article reports on the e-Framework Reference Model for Assessment (FREMA) project that aimed at creating a reference model for the assessment domain: a guide to what resources (standards, projects, people, organisations, software, services and...
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Mapping the e-Learning Assessment Domain: Concept Maps for Orientation and Navigation
David Millard; Yvonne Howard; Christopher Bailey; Hugh Davis; Lester Gilbert; Steve Jeyes; Joeseph Price; Niall Sclater; Robert Sherratt; Iain Tulloch; Gary Wills; Rowin Young3
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2770–2775
Concept or Topic Maps have long been used as a method of categorising and organising information about a domain. Building them can help people conceptualise an area and spot trends or gaps, and as a presentation method they quickly provide an...