February Meeting

We had the Feb meeting this week. A couple of people couldn't make it but sent updates. The biggest problem recently is that our HIVE guru has been on holiday for 3 weeks and so work has practically stopped, albeit temporarily. Things are back to normal now and so things should start moving on getting documents into Hive. This has got to a point now where we need to start playing with real data and working out if our descriptions actually work.

We have been concentrating more on the "models" and "fast-track" side of the project recently. Christa has come up with a set of starting points or categories for her approaches or models based around the follwing:
• Structure
• Delivery
• Content
• Interactivity
• Assessment
• Resourcing
• Support
We think it'll be a good idea (given the time left on the project) to concentrate on delivery, interactivity and support for now. We can see how the interactivity planned on a course will influence the support needed. If we can marry this to templates then we may be able to see a "real" way in which it may work and we could present it to our QIS and ask if we can pilot it. The idea being that we target a validation of an award being led by an experienced team that have previously validated a similar award. I need to think this through more as it is still formulating as an idea, it may take some time!

I also sent a short description of the project to Rob at Netskills so we can demo it at the JISC meeting in March in Edinburgh. We should have something to actually demo by then, the Community of practice is up and running and it shouldn't take much to put in the links.

We also have started to look at evaluation and I had a quick look at the final report templates. I ran away.