AN overview of the Opuslearning approach to open and distance learning

1. OPUS LEARNING LTD
British Education Online
www.opuslearning.com
@OpusLearning

2. 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

3. WHERE WE COME FROM
SQA: our
standards body
CAPDM: our
engineering
workshop
Scottish Education:
where our people
come from

4. 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)

6. OUR ACCREDITATIONS

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. WHAT WE DELIVER
Courses
Qualifications Cloud Technologies
for Delivery &
Administration
Exams and
Assessments
Operating
manual
Plus our unique tools for learning and assessment

10. 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

11. 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

12. DIGITAL WORKBOOK

13. 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

14. THE DIGITAL WORKBOOK (DWB)

15. DWB DASHBOARD

16. WHAT DO OUR COURSES
LOOK LIKE?

17. SCREEN SHOTS

18. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

19. DIGITAL REFLECTION

20. ENOUGH BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY!
WHAT DO WE OFFER?

21. OPUS PRODUCTS FOR PARTNERS
1.The “College in a Box”
2.The Satellite Centre in a Box
3.Opus Learning Online College

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. OPUS LEARNING ONLINE COLLEGE

28. 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

29. OPUS LEARNING LTD
British Education Online
www.opuslearning.com
@OpusLearning
22 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH, UK
enquiries@opuslearning.com