GLOW

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/usingglowandict/

GLOW is the national intranet for education in Scotland. Introduced initially for schools, it is now used in colleges as well; it carries an increasing number of Higher courses fully online and is linked to, and used by both school and college VLEs.

GLOW has developed a Virtual Campus which will be available from August 2011. The intention for the VC is that students will be able to study courses even when there is very limited access to teachers in the students' school. Initially, the Virtual Campus will support two subjects - Advanced Higher History, and Advanced Higher French. Shortly after the initial launch, beginners Gaelic and Learning Skills will be added. There will be a fifth subject also offered from 2011 onwards: resources to support the Games Design NPA. There are online tutorials and video interviews to support this and work is continuing with the SQA [1] to finalise this. The resources to support the NPA were created by LTS's [www.ltscotland.org.uk] Consolarium team, and are in GLOW already.

The materials for Adavenced Higher French have been given to GLOW by North Ayrshire Council which has its own virtual campus. This is difficult to find on the Council website and not to be confused with Kilwinning, the North Ayrshire campus os James Watt College [see http://www.kilwinning.org/tour/section3.htm].

The Advanced History resources have been given to GLOW from Kirkwall Grammar School, and over and above course materials, they include example dissertations and essay answers too which will allow open debate amongst teachers to help ensure consistency in marking. GLOW has recently completed an online e-moderation course which would be undertaken by a member of staff who would be willing to support students through a course, with the students coming from various schools.