Qualifications

For some time now, thanks to Alan Brown's astute intervention, we here at KnowNet have been exploring options for a dynamic, online version of the information presented in the leaflet(s) "Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland". That work is still preliminary, but I'll be posting at least one option later this morning.

To provide some background, I attach the PDF leaflets of the crossing boundaries information for Scotland, Ireland, and England, Wales & Northern Ireland (the difference between the leaflets is in the order of the information columns and in the contact details provided).

Watch this weblog for further posts about the crossing boundaries interfaces.

By the way, I am posting the entry from ECTO - my favourite weblog-editing desktop application. It is easy to post weblog entries from within the weblog itself, but you may find that it is even easier to post from special desktop applications like ECTO - for instance it allows multiple file attachments / thumbnails in one step.

For some time now, thanks to Alan Brown's astute intervention, we here at KnowNet have been exploring options for a dynamic, online version of the information presented in the leaflet(s) "Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland". That work is still preliminary, but I'll be posting at least one option later this morning.

To provide some background, I attach the PDF leaflets of the crossing boundaries information for Scotland, Ireland, and England, Wales & Northern Ireland (the difference between the leaflets is in the order of the information columns and in the contact details provided).

Watch this weblog for further posts about the crossing boundaries interfaces.

By the way, I am posting the entry from ECTO - my favourite weblog-editing desktop application. It is easy to post weblog entries from within the weblog itself, but you may find that it is even easier to post from special desktop applications like ECTO - for instance it allows multiple file attachments / thumbnails in one step.

For some time now, thanks to Alan Brown's astute intervention, we here at KnowNet have been exploring options for a dynamic, online version of the information presented in the leaflet(s) "Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland". That work is still preliminary, but I'll be posting at least one option later this morning.

To provide some background, I attach the PDF leaflets of the crossing boundaries information for Scotland, Ireland, and England, Wales & Northern Ireland (the difference between the leaflets is in the order of the information columns and in the contact details provided).

Watch this weblog for further posts about the crossing boundaries interfaces.

By the way, I am posting the entry from ECTO - my favourite weblog-editing desktop application. It is easy to post weblog entries from within the weblog itself, but you may find that it is even easier to post from special desktop applications like ECTO - for instance it allows multiple file attachments / thumbnails in one step.

A key advantage of rich RSS for collaboration spaces is that it allows people to track a large number of discussions, distributed across disparate systems. With the advent of podcasting and filecasting, this is even easier. If you subscribe to the RSS 2 feed for this weblog, you'll see that when there is a file attached to a post, you have access to it directly from your feed reader, without having to visit the site.

The advantage of this system over having to remember to re-visit all the websites you area member of is obvious

It advantage over emailing files to everyone who may want them is that the user "pulls" instead of being "pushed at". Instead of unwelcome emails disturbing my concentration - and being quickly forgotten as they are pushed down my inbox by yet more emails, I track projects and discussions through RSS when I choose to. And my organisation of feeds serves as a memory for the content I've been tracking.

And since our discussions also support the 'editing APIs', you can also post and attach directly from a weblog editor. No-one need ever even visit the site! For instance, I attached the pdf file above just by dragging it into my editing pane in ecto.