The first electronic signature pilot exercise explored the feasibility of creating a workable system using freely available resources. As noted in the Workpackage planning document, cost is a serious issue both for institutions and their students. The report below shows how pilot exercise 1 provided very encouraging evidence that such systems are achievable.
Friday 30 November 2012
Electronic Signatures Pilot at Swansea Met
In addition to the piloting of the SWANI project outcomes by partners in the SAWSW WBL partnership, the PotsPan project also has the objective of exploring the benefits of using electronic signatures more generally in institutional management documentation. Project Workpackage 3 addresses this objective and the work is being carried out at Swansea Metropolitan, recently merged with University of Wales Trinity St David.
This evaluation exercise was not constrained by the EU requirement for 'wet signatures' and was therefore able to explore the use of electronic signatures applied directly to digitised documents, rather than using a digital pen. The pilot is currently under way at Swansea Met and has a specific focus on the potential benefits for online assessment authentication for work submitted by distance learners.
The pilot plan is outlined in the document below:
This evaluation exercise was not constrained by the EU requirement for 'wet signatures' and was therefore able to explore the use of electronic signatures applied directly to digitised documents, rather than using a digital pen. The pilot is currently under way at Swansea Met and has a specific focus on the potential benefits for online assessment authentication for work submitted by distance learners.
The pilot plan is outlined in the document below:
Friday 16 November 2012
Preparations for the Digitised WBL System Pilot
The main preparation activity for the PotsPan project WBL system pilot exercise has been the updating and refinement of the Joomla document management system. Tony Toole has been working with Lewis Jones at CSG to identify where improvements can be made and to implement those improvements.
To a great extent these have been editing and format issues relating to the website and the forms it contains. However, it has also been an opportunity to re-examine the administrative and management workflows and how these can be made more efficient and better support the work of the training advisors in particular.
The main piloting activities will be carried out at Coleg Sir Gar and Pembrokeshire College and the digital pens to be used in the exercise have been purchased and distributed. The period before the end of 2012 will enable the system to be trialled by those participating in the pilot at the institutions: for them to become familiar with the structure of the Joomla system and the use of the digital pens.
The full pilot exercise will begin in the new year with cohorts of work-based learners chosen by the partners.
A further pilot exercise will be carried out at Swansea Metropolitan University with an online distance learning development involving WBL delivery to the armed forces deployed in Germany and elsewhere. Included in this exercise will be a mapping to the JISC work-based learning toolkit.
To a great extent these have been editing and format issues relating to the website and the forms it contains. However, it has also been an opportunity to re-examine the administrative and management workflows and how these can be made more efficient and better support the work of the training advisors in particular.
The main piloting activities will be carried out at Coleg Sir Gar and Pembrokeshire College and the digital pens to be used in the exercise have been purchased and distributed. The period before the end of 2012 will enable the system to be trialled by those participating in the pilot at the institutions: for them to become familiar with the structure of the Joomla system and the use of the digital pens.
The full pilot exercise will begin in the new year with cohorts of work-based learners chosen by the partners.
A further pilot exercise will be carried out at Swansea Metropolitan University with an online distance learning development involving WBL delivery to the armed forces deployed in Germany and elsewhere. Included in this exercise will be a mapping to the JISC work-based learning toolkit.
Monday 5 November 2012
The Digital Pen System
The Swani project and now the Potspan project are continuing to explore different ways of achieving the objective of establishing an electronic signature system that is acceptable to the EU for audit purposes and hence also acceptable to the Welsh Government.
The recent presentations have shown how applications like Adobe Acrobat can create PDF documents that meet the EU requirements, but that it was unrealistic to expect an agreement to be in place before the end of the projects.
Hence the 'quick and dirty' solution of using a digital pen remains at the centre of the Potspan pilot project and will be in action later this month.
The Destiny pen, together with Fastdox software are being used and the whole system is explained below:
The recent presentations have shown how applications like Adobe Acrobat can create PDF documents that meet the EU requirements, but that it was unrealistic to expect an agreement to be in place before the end of the projects.
Hence the 'quick and dirty' solution of using a digital pen remains at the centre of the Potspan pilot project and will be in action later this month.
The Destiny pen, together with Fastdox software are being used and the whole system is explained below:
JISC Online Conference 2012
The Jisc Innovating e-Learning Online Conference 2012 is a week long event from the 19th to the 23rd November and the programme can be viewed at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference12/programme.aspx.
Prior to the conference is an activity week and a range of interesting initiatives are being presented over four days beginning on 13th November. full details can be seen at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference12/activityweek.aspx
The Swani/Potspan project outcomes will be presented on the 13th November and the slides (based on the ALT-C presentation, but now with soundtrack!) are shown below:
Prior to the conference is an activity week and a range of interesting initiatives are being presented over four days beginning on 13th November. full details can be seen at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference12/activityweek.aspx
The Swani/Potspan project outcomes will be presented on the 13th November and the slides (based on the ALT-C presentation, but now with soundtrack!) are shown below:
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