Glow ‐ Scotland's National Intranet wins United Kingdom & Ireland
Regional Learning Impact Competition
29 September 2008. Lake Mary, FL. The winners of the UK/Ireland Regional Learning Impact Awards (LIA) competition were announced at the Summit on Interoperability Now and Next in Birmingham, UK on 18 September 2008.The full day Summit was hosted jointly by the 1EdTech Consortium (1EdTech Global) and UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
The LIA awards are unique in that they recognize the use of technology in context. Nominations
include not only information about the technology but how it is used by an educational or
training organization. In addition, the entries are evaluated according to eight criteria of impact,
including improving access to learning, improving affordability of learning, and improving the
quality of learning.
The entry, Glow‐ Scotland’s National Intranet, from Learning and Teaching Scotland and RM
Education plc won first place in the competition. Glow, a national schools intranet digitally links
Scotland's 800,000 educators and pupils. Glow, funded by the Scottish government, is designed
to support educational development and includes a range of communication and collaboration
services along with teaching and learning tools all drawn together into a single portal
environment.
Second place in the competition was awarded to CURVE from Coventry University with support
from EQUELLA. CURVE provides a single repository for the university’s digital academic content
and is used for both teaching and research objects. The third place LIA was awarded to Racing
Academy at the University of Bath. The Racing Academy project, an online automotive
engineering academy based on leading‐edge computer games technology, was designed and
built in order to provide a progressive opportunity to learn real physics and mechanical
engineering in a virtual community.
All three winners will be able to compete at an international level at the Learning Impact
Awards held in Barcelona Spain the 11‐14 May 2009. Nominations for the international
competition can be submitted at /learningimpact2009/liformchoice.cfm until 31 December 2008.
Information and registration for the Learning Impact Conference is available at: /learningimpact2009/index.html
About 1EdTech Consortium (1EdTech GLC)
1EdTech Learning is a global, nonprofit, member organization that strives to enable the
growth and impact of learning technology in the education and corporate learning sectors
worldwide. 1EdTech GLC members provide leadership in shaping and growing the learning industry
through community development of interoperability and adoption practice standards and
recognition of the return on investment from learning and educational technology. For more
information, including the world's most comprehensive set of learning technology
interoperability standards, information on the annual Learning Impact conference and awards
program, and free community resources for learning technology leaders, visit www.imsglobal.org.
(Pictured: Left to Right‐ Andrew
Potter, RM Education and Karen-Ann McAlpine, Learning Teaching
Scotland
