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.
www.opuslearn.net
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