Topic outline

  • General

    • Teaching & Learning Division - digital products and services
    • November 2020

  • Overview

    • Teaching & Learning digital engagement

    • Teaching & Learning digital engagement

  • Draft - more details

    • Teaching & Learning - digital engagement - further detail

  • Curriculum support materials

  • Assessment products

    • Assessment products

    • High stakes digital

      Working with customer insight, assessment, qualifications and teaching and learning specialists to help define the what, why and how from a digital assessment pov across various cognate groups.

      Contributing to the design and trialling of innovative new assessment techniques such as LOFT (TDAs June ‘21) that significantly advance CA’s capability to design reliable, standardized, valid and practical on-screen assessments.

      ePortfolio

      Progression Tests

      13,348 active users in 2021

      3,166 of them are new users this year across the Primary and Lower Secondary websites.

      2019 there were 126,558 tests (paper and on-screen) completed by learners. 

      Pandemic has reduced this years paper assessment number significantly however there are signs of growth in online test usage as a proportion of the total tests being taken.


  • Professional Development

    • Professional development

      • Face to face training
        • 2018/19: 718 events, 13,734 delegates, £???m.
        • 2019/20: 531 events, 8,832 delegates, £???m.

      • Online training
        • 2018/19: 400 courses, 7,000 participants   (145,000 hours of learning), £1.07m
        • 2020/21: 750 courses, 13,000 participants (245,000 hours of learning), £1.4m

      • Professional Development Qualifications
        • 3676 users, 487 ePortfolios (22,759 pages) since June 2018
        • ePortfolio: candidates collate evidence of learning, practice and reflection
        • eSubmission: direct and secure, efficient and cost effective

  • Community

    • Community

      • School Support Hub - 90000k Cambridge teachers (SSH forum)
      • Course communities – 750 forums, one per PD course (OLP)
      • Pandemic community of Practice (from May 2020) 3285 users, 1450 posts (OLP)


  • Research

    • Research

      • Cambridge International Panel
      • Flagship research project is on COVID covering:
        • What are the successful models of remote teaching and learning as experienced by our schools?
        • What are school views on Cambridge approving registered online providers?
        • What emphasis are schools placing on non-formal education?
        • What are schools’ perceptions and experiences of online PD and conferences?

      • Monthly online critical friend school sessions
      • Cross-divisional research on alternative to examinations for June 2020 (complete) and June 2021 (about to start)
      • Product /UX research on adhoc basis.
  • Innovation

    • Innovation

    • Customer centric, output orientated design leading to the development of solutions such as

      Test Maker, ODT, SSH, OLP

      Draw upon our extensive knowledge and experience of digital assessment to design and implement production processes critical for successful development of on-screen digital assessment such as:

      Defining options and processes for digital reuse of past paper items (scraping, QTI extracts etc.)

      Designing and iterating to improve working processes for authoring and QA of on-screen items, utilising technology where appropriate for use in products such as TDA’s, OCR Topic tests, TM and Progression tests (BTL Surpass workflows etc.)

      Producing support materials for item authors, process owners and 3rd party consultants.

      Working across the business (with assessment and qualification specialists for example) to define best practice and principles for successful digital assessment design such as the on-screen assessment style guide.

      The on-screen assessment style guide is a single reference tool that providing guidance required for the creation of Cambridge on-screen assessments and associated digital materials

      It gives support in the visual, stylistic and functional aspects of the design and interactions of on-screen assessment products, considering the user interface and experience, based on evidence from user-based trialling, academic research, market research and web/ digital standards and guidelines.

      It is important as it allows us to develop a consistent and recognisable Cambridge on-screen assessment product across the Cambridge Pathway; ensures those involved in on-screen assessment development have support and guidance; and provides a framework of requirements for on-screen assessment delivery platform developers to use.

    • Additional items needed here?

      • Pedagogy-led professional development
      • Tools for learning (apps/swipe tool)
      • Platform build (ODT, SSH, OLP)


  • eCommerce


    • Referenced in updated diagram - should we include something further? Good way of showing how we currently utilise booking and payment systems