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21st Century Techniques and Technologies to Measure Skills and Knowledge :
Dublin Conference 13th October 2005

our next exciting event is in Hong Kong on 6th and 7th April 2006

Programme

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Programme (please click on speaker name for biography)

08:45 Registration and Welcome

09:30 Introduction by Chair, Professor Stephen Heppell, Director of Learn3K, National College of Ireland

09:40 ‘The use of ICT to measure skills and knowledge – tools and techniques’ Mike Dawe, City and Guilds

10:05 ‘The Challenge for Educationalists - Reaching the Learners’, David Jennings, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University College Dublin

10.30 ‘Requirements for Skills Certification’ Dudley Dolan, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin and External EU Consultant with ECDL Foundation

10.55 Coffee

11.15 ‘Emerging Adoption of e-Assessment in the Professions’ Garrett Sherry, Thomson Prometric, Dublin

11.40 ‘eAssessment implementation within the Irish Financial Services Industry’, Dennis Saunders, Calibrand and Peter Bennett of Questionbank Management

12.05 'Using e-Assessment in the recruitment and appraisal of staff', Colin Deal, Cojent

12:30 Question and Answer Panel

12:45  Buffet Lunch, networking & browse informal exhibition

13:45 Review of morning session by the Chair

13:50 ‘Putting Assessment at the Heart of Learning’ Jonny Parkes, Electric Paper, Dublin

14:15 ‘A Northern Ireland Perspective’ Martin Montgomery, CCEA, Belfast

14:40 ‘An online assessment project‘, Prof. Christian Horn, Broadcast Learning, NovaUCD, Dublin     

15:05 Tea

15:20 ‘Using e-Assessments’, Suzana Lopes, Promissor, Europe

15:45 ‘Future developments and innovation’ John Winkley, BTL

16:10 Question and Answer Panel

16:25 Final address & review by Chair

Whether you are using Information Communications and Technology

  • to measure the skills & knowledge of students taking formal qualifications, or
  • taking advantage of the flexibility and effectiveness of the technology to record and assess learning, or
  • even using it to appraise employees and candidates,

this conference enabled delegates to see how e-Assessment offers exciting and innovative approaches to otherwise costly and inflexible assessment of learners, students and employees.

Who attended?

  • Central & Regional Government, Education Agencies & Local Authorities
  • Senior Managers at Schools, Colleges and  Training Providers
  • Employers and Recruiters
  • Senior Managers  from Training and Human Resources
  • Education, Training and Qualification Policy Makers
  • Awarding Bodies and Assessment Providers
  • System Providers
  • e-Learning Publishers

The conference took place at the Davenport Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 - click here for more details about the venue

A small informal exhibition enabled delegates to see some of the latest developments in e-Assessment

For more information email
info@assessment-tomorrow.com today with your name and contact details and we will send you information about the exciting
DUBLIN 2006 event now being planned.

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Assessment Tomorrow
21st Century Techniques and Technologies to Measure Skills and Knowledge
A series of major International CONFERENCEs
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA 21st and 22nd February 2005
DUBLIN, IRELAND 13th October 2005
HONG KONG 6th and 7th April 2006

 

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