Its been a while since I blogged here - what with Christmas and a flurry of activity on the eMM front, I've literally been too busy to even slow down and think. Hopefully a more regular pace of publication will resume now that the year is underway, starting with a few updates.

The Scottish Funding Council have finally published the report on the application of the eMM (in seriously abbreviated form) to 43 Further Education Providers. An interesting report and great work from the team at Sero consulting.

The HEA Benchmarking Pilot eMM cohort had their final meeting at Bristol to cap off a successful project. I met with everyone in December at Sheffield and had a very enjoyable two days learning about how the eMM had been used in their institutions and getting soem valuable feedback - much of which will inform posts here in the near future. In the meantime we're hoping to capture those experiences and the resulting wisdom in some form of publication - more updates as we know more.

The New Zealand TEC project to benchmark the twenty New Zealand ITPs using the eMM is well underway, I'm working with the project lead, Terry Neal and four colleagues doing the assessments (they're fully externally assessed unlike the SFC and HEA projects). Hopefully some form of report or publication will be public in the near future, but this is sensitive stuff so we'll see. Personally I'm very excited about the potential impact this project could have in improving investment in e-learning, I just hope politics and commercial concerns don't prevent it having the greatest benefit to the students and the sector.

Other eMM projects are progressing as well, including an ACODE funded study bases primarily in Australia with tendrils back into New Zealand and also potentially Singapore and Canada, and the start of work in the USA, hopefully all of these will continue to progress as well as the previous work.