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Saturday, July 24, 2004
A-level e-learning arrives in Northern Ireland - James Mortleman, vnunet.com
A- level science students in Northern Ireland are set to benefit from an e-learning system that has been shown to boost exam grades. The Scholar programme, developed five years ago by Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University, has already been rolled out to every secondary school in Scotland and an increasing number in England. Designed to match the curriculum, Scholar allows A-level and AS-level students to access course materials - including text, diagrams, interactive demonstrations and assessments - over the internet. It also offers discussion board facilities and lets teachers monitor pupils' progress. For the past seven months, Scholar courses in computing, physics and chemistry have been trialled at four schools in Northern Ireland under the auspices of the Northern Ireland eLearning Partnership and e-learning specialist Interactive University (IU), which is responsible for developing Scholar commercially.
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