This important change to the way qualifications are structured is imminent and it provides a great opportunity to all e-portfolio providers to help assessment centres with this fundamental change in the way that qualifications are delivered.
Fortunately when we first designed our e-portfolio we had contact with one of the organisations that was assisting the government to determine whether a credit based approach to qualifications was feasible. Our judgement was that this approach would be introduced and therefore from the outset we constructed our e-portfolio so that units from qualifications are selected.
The introduction of the QCF therefore does not fundamentally challenge the way our e-portfolio operates. However we have always wanted to go further than this in order to ease the introduction of the QCF.
We notice that some e-portfolios are already providing the ability to calculate the credit values,in order to determine whether the qualification is an Award, Certificate or Diploma. Although we think its important to do this, the key point where we can assist Centres most is when they are 'constructing the qualification' for each learner using the Rules of Combination. They need to know what Units can be combined to create a qualification at the appropriate level and with the necessary number of Units.
Our developers are already working on this and should have something ready in the next two weeks. As with all our developers it will be designed in such a way to be able to accomodate any rule of combination. Exciting times and ones that we enthusiastically welcome and support.
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It's great to hear that employers are getting really exciting about the new QCF. It's a really good sign that they are a step in the right direction in regards to training and development qualifications.
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