2. Who we are  Liam Campbell European and External Funding Coordinator, SQA  David McCormick Support Materials Officer, SQA

3. New Technologies, New Approaches  Introduction to MSHNP  The writer’s view on the key issues Robin McGee – Questions  The writer’s view online Tony Gurney – More questions  Your chance to inform SQA

4. Modernising Scottish Higher National Provision (MSHNP)  European Social Fund Project  New and innovative assessment and learning tools  Complements and contributes towards Higher National modernisation programme  Total project value - £4.1M  ESF Grant – 45% - £1.8M  Duration: August 2004 – December 2007

5. Project Facts  Expected outputs: -1000+ assessment exemplars -500+ learning & teaching packs -600+ online assessments -1,775 websites mapped and 74 Learner Guides developed in Information Gateway

6. Project Outputs Strand 1  Assessment exemplars for a range of modernised HN awards > 80% of Units  Learning & teaching resources for a selection of curriculum areas > 30 HNs Strand 2  Online e-assessments through the SOLAR project  Information Gateways and Learner Guides to support e-learning  Online learning & teaching resources  A Core Skills initial screening tool

7. Where?  European Funded HN pages on SQA websiteSQA website  SFEU - http://www2.sfeu.ac.uk/rflg.asphttp://www2.sfeu.ac.uk/rflg.asp  SOLAR Project - www.solarproject.orgwww.solarproject.org

8. Examples of available materials  Assessment exemplars  Tutor Support Packs  Candidate Support Packs – Advertising & PR - Robin McGee  Digital learning resources – Computing - Tony Gurney www.e-learning-computing.comwww.e-learning-computing.com

9. Robin McGee Central College. Glasgow Tony Gurney Ayr College

10. The Solar Project  S cottish O n L ine A ssessment R esources  Develop and deliver significant numbers of online summative assessments across curricular areas incl. – Computing, Care, Engineering, Languages, Sports  Objective-type questions – MCQ, MRQ, Numerical, gapfill, re-ordering, matching, free-text, drag-n-drop  Pre-moderated and guaranteed on delivery

11. What Now?  Prolongation  You have a role  Ideas Card  Any Questions?

12. Contact Information Liam Campbell ESF Coordinator mshnp@sqa.org.ukmshnp@sqa.org.uk 0845 213 5405 www.sqa.org.uk/europeanfunded