IT in education

Over the past ten years, e-learning has become a key service offered by most colleges and universities, forms the core of numerous business plans, and is a major strategy within the Department for Education and Skills. Together with representatives from business, government and society, BSI is working to standardize this fast-developing field. Read more . . .

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BS ISO/IEC 23988:2007
Information technology. A code of practice for the use of information technology (IT) in the delivery of assessments


Developments in the capabilities of IT have led to its growing use to deliver, score and record responses of tests and assessments in a wide range of educational and other contexts.

Suitably used, IT delivery offers advantages of speed and efficiency, better feedback and improvements in validity and reliability, but its increased use has raised issues about the security and fairness of IT-delivered assessments, as well as resulting in a wide range of different practices.

  

standard coverBS 8426:2003
A code of practice for e-support in e-learning systems
standard coverCWA 15660:2007
Providing good practice for e-learning quality approaches

standard coverCWA 15661:2007
Providing e-learning supplies transparency profiles

standard coverCWA 15555:2006
Guidelines and support for building application profiles in e-learning
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