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We are at the NET conference in Cambridge

The NET conference draws together nurses from across the world and we are delighted to again be exhibiting at the event.

We have had the opportunity to speak to delegates from Universities in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK and it is apparent there is a growing interest in the online assessment of professional practice. It is therefore great that we have been able to talk about the successful introduction of our online system at the Universities of Southampton, Bournemouth and Surrey. Delegates have been impressed by the way we have managed to reflect the particular approach to practice assessment at each University.

A number of the delegates have discussed their concerns with respect to an online system. They have expressed concerns about signatures and they have been reassured that every decision in the portfolio is date stamped and linked back to a specific user name and password, arguably making it more secure than paper. Some delegates have wondered about whether they will need to supply their students with devices and have pleased to hear that this was not required at any of the Universities we work with. Others have wondered about the challenges of Hospital firewalls and pleased to hear that this has always been overcome.

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Surrey University Students complete first year

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The first group of students to use the online Surrey Practice Learning Platform to have their practice experience assessed, have just completed the first year.

The students were on the Paramedic and Child Nursing courses and have been used to trial the system. It has been a successful experience for the students, their mentors and students with the quality of the student reflections and the feedback from mentors improving. They have mirrored the experience of our other sites where through using an electronic assessment tool, students tend to be more reflective and the feedback their mentors provide to them has a sharper focus.

As a result next year students on the Midwifery and the Operating Department Practitioners courses will also be using the Surrey PLP as well as students on all other Nursing programmes.

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Universities enjoying new tools and features

Universities have requested some new tools and features and they are enjoying using them.

  • Feedback from colleagues can now be captured using a 360 degree tool.
  • Students can create a CV and easily chose supportive evidence from their portfolio
  • Mentors can sign off work using their student’s devise using a secure PIN

All these developments are available to other Universities if they want to use them of course

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The above image is an example 360 result from the site AXIA digital have developped for the University of Surrey.  New 360 degree assessments can be authored by an administrator and linked to any level of a course.

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Projected savings for a course of 400 students

Three year paper cost = £138K vs £54K electronic

One off printing costs £20 per portfolio x 400 students per year = £8,000

Verification – 1200 students (all three years) submit twice a year.  2400 submissions to verify at 4 portfolios per hour = 600 hours of academic time = 16 weeks (4 months) = 20K

Photocopying – 150,000 sheets of paper for each cohort, of which, in 3 year programme, 72,000 will need to be photocopied and manually filed (3 months)  = £10K (actual copier costs excluded)

Verification online group 20 students takes 2 hours and no photocopying.  2400 submissions will take 240 hours or 6 1/2 weeks to complete which equates to 8K

Three years costs of paper based assessment £46K x £ = £138K

Three year cost of electrocic assessment £30K build plus £8K annual costs = £54K

Read More – AXIA Digital – projected savings

 

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ACCA PER log successfully implemented

Now that the first quarter of the new Professional Experience Tool that we developed with and for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has passed, it is time to reflect on a successful implementation.

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The tool is used by 600,000 trainee accountants located across the world who capture evidence of their professional experience alongside the passing of examinations. Consequently our NOW.net platform was subject to rigorous testing in advance of the site being launched in February. It flew through these tests and once it became live it has maintained an enviable high performance in relation to up time and speeds. Only the great firewall of China caused us a temporary headache.

This makes it one of the largest scale projects anywhere in the world where the e-assessment of skills is carried out by one organisation fully online.

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Our unique offer lies in our ability to deliver to our customers exactly what they require. We do not have products but instead a platform which we can use to mirror our customer processes. None of our customers need to change what they do to fit into our system, our system is flexible enough to reflect what they currently do and enhance the user’s experience.

Since 1997 AXIA Digital has been helping organisations capture and assess skills and competencies that are demonstrated in a professional setting or in the workplace. We create leading edge digital solutions, which mirror and then enhance existing assessment systems. Our solutions are all individually hand crafted but are deployed on the same platform.

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