Opus learning - british education online

OPUS LEARNING LTDBritish Education Onlinewww.opuslearning.com

@OpusLearning

THE OPUS VISION

To become a major supplier of British vocational and higher education to the world by 2018

We will achieve this by helping our Partners to deliver

accredited qualifications in a low-risk, low-cost manner

WHERE WE COME FROM

SQA: our standards body

CAPDM: our engineering workshop

Scottish Education: where our people come from

SQA is the national accreditation and awarding body in Scotland.

• SQA accredits vocational qualifications.

• As an awarding body, SQA works with

• schools, colleges, universities, industry, and government,

• to provide high quality, flexible and relevant qualifications.

ABOUT THE SCOTTISH QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY (SQA)

OUR ACCREDITATIONS

OUR PROGRAMMES

• Our programmes are self-contained and consist of: • learning infrastructure;

• Interactive learning content;

• Assessments; and

• options for offline delivery.

• Everything is delivered from the cloud to your livery.

• We are building 3 schools now:• Business;

• Education; and

• Health and Sports Management.

THE BUSINESS SCHOOL

We now have a coherent business school, with its curriculum built around 3 core HND level programmes:

1. Business Awarded by SQA

2. Management and Leadership Awarded by SQA and CMI

3. Financial and Business Management Awarded by SQA and IAAP

Plus another 7 Professional Awards. These programmes are made up of 70+ unit courses.

WHAT WE DELIVER

Courses

Qualifications

Cloud Technologies for Delivery & Administration

Exams and Assessments

Operating manual

Plus our unique tools for learning and assessment

OUR TECHNOLOGIES PROVIDE

• Highly interactive course contents

• Student-to-Content Interaction

• Recording of interactions and personal reflections

• Embedded activities and assessment

• Multi-user activities

• Logging and monitoring of achievement with SQA

OUR TECHNOLOGY

• A portfolio embedded in the content

• A dashboard for learning, from all user points of view

• Recording of legacy from learning

• Rich seam of data and behaviours for mining

• Ongoing formative assessment, and potential summative assessment

DIGITAL WORKBOOK

STUDENT WORKING CONCEPT

Learner interacting with content, leaving traces

Student interacts with content

Makes notes, responds to quiz, send messages, etc

Capture notesStore in MLE

Print off record of learning

THE DIGITAL WORKBOOK (DWB)

DWB DASHBOARD

WHAT DO OUR COURSES LOOK LIKE?

SCREEN SHOTS

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

DIGITAL REFLECTION

ENOUGH BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY!WHAT DO WE OFFER?

OPUS PRODUCTS FOR PARTNERS

1.The “College in a Box”

2.The Satellite Centre in a Box

3.Opus Learning Online College

1. “COLLEGE IN A BOX”

• In this service we act as a technology, content and assessment instrument supplier to SQA Approved Centres.

• The products/services we supply include:

• Consultancy to achieve SQA Centre Status, if required

• Training of Staff

• Platform – to centre livery

• Content

• Initial assessments

• Sample delivery plans

• Tutor cost models

• Tutor/Assessor/Verifier operational model

COLLEGE IN A BOX: PARTNERS

PARTNER COLLEGES RECRUITED TO DATE ARE:

• UK: Bournville College, Millennium City Academy and West-Lothian College.

• Mexico: Universidad Filadelfia De Mexico, Veracruz.

• Singapore: Academy of Principals.

• Global: International Association of Accounting Professionals. • We expect 3 partner centres to become SQA Approved in

2014, recruiting students in 2014/2015.

• According to plans from IAAP they will reach 1000 students in our SQA and Satellite Centres by 2018.

2. “SATELLITE CENTRE IN A BOX”

• For those centres who do not wish to become an SQA Centre. The students are ours, supported by the Centre.

• Our productisation of this operation is similar to Colleges in a box:

• All assessments, into the future

• Opus defined delivery plans

• Negotiated tutor cost models

• Tutor/Assessor/Verifier operations

• All SQA communications and

interventions

• All student registrations; and all

data transfer to and from SQA

• Audit of systems against SQA;

• Adoption of Opus Operational

and Quality Manual

• Selection of staff; approval to

act as Assessor/Internal Verifier

• Training of Staff

• Platform – to centre livery

• Content

SATELLITE CENTRE IN A BOX: PARTNERS

PARTNER COLLEGES:

• Ivek International Education Inc of Vancouver, Canada.

• International Association of Book-Keepers (IAB).

The IAB International Network

3. OPUS LEARNING ONLINE COLLEGE

• As an approved SQA Study Centre, Opus also offers Opus branded programmes direct to students.

• We have support from the Scottish Government in the form of student grants from the Students Awards Agency for Scotland.

• We are currently recruiting students to start in the Autumn of 2014.

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OPUS LEARNING ONLINE COLLEGE

WHAT NEXT

• Roll out more programmes to current centre networks

• Develop Degrees with more University partners

• Recruit more colleges in the UK and abroad

• Recruit more Professional Bodies

OPUS LEARNING LTDBritish Education Onlinewww.opuslearning.com

@OpusLearning

22 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH, UK

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