John Winkley

3Square Solutions Ltd
Appletree House
Cliffe Terrace
Baildon
W Yorks
BD17 5LA


e   Johnw@3sq.co.uk

w  www.3sq.co.uk

   01274 412490

m  07973 744617

 
 

Here are some of 3Square's current projects:


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JISC - 
www.jisc.ac.uk
E-Assessment Glossary

JISC, in association with QCA and BECTA have contracted 3Square Solutions to lead a team comprising AlphaPlus Consultancy and Chris Ricketts of The University of Plymouth to develop a glossary of e-assessment terms for use by the UK education community.  The project runs for 3 months, June through August 2005 and is a consultative project which seeks to reach a broad based agreement on the terminology used throughout the UK educational community in respect of e-assessment. For more detail click here.

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Yorkshire Forward - 
www.yorkshire-forward.com
Ecampus

Ecampus is a large infrastructure project in Sheffield which will provide a technology park for 5000 employees. The mix of small and large companies that will occupy this park will have a complex and chaning human resources requirement for which, it has already been identified, there is insufficient local provision. 3Square has been working with local private and public agencies.

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FDLearning - 
www.fdlearning.com
Business Strategy

FDLearning is a leading provider of IT solutions for learning and management to the UK education and public sector. Its customers include colleges, universities, schools, local authorities, goverment agencies and private sector training providers, including work on flagship projects forthe University for Industry (Ufi Ltd), Kent Adult Education Service, the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency and regional programes such as the South Yorkshire e-Learning Programe. 3Square is working with FDLearning, and its parent company, Tribal Gp plc, to refine its elearning product strategy.

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Scottish Enterprise - 
www.scottish-enterprise.com
Intelligent Assessment Technologies Business Plan

Scottish Enterprise is Scotland's main economic development agency. It operates a highly regarded competition for small businesses called "who wants to be an Entrepreneur" (http://whowantstobe.co.uk). 3Square worked with one of the entrants, IAT (www.intelligentassessment.com) to develop their business plan. They won the top prize of £20,000. 3Square is continuing to work with IAT as they develop their highly innovative assessment technology.

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BTL Group - 
www.btl.com
Project Development

John Winkley, 3Square's principal consultant, remains Commercial Director of BTL Group and works on a number of projects with them.

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Black Marble
 -  www.blackmarble.co.uk
Business Development

Blackmarble is a small ICT developer working in the field of elearning. 3Square is working with them on two projects - it helped them to win a SMART award for development of new programming languages for children, and is working to define a business development strategy for its new Scarlet web learning platform.

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Yorkshire Forward
- www.yf-skills.org
IT Vendor Skills

3Square is helping Yorkshire Forward to manage the delivery of IT Vendor Skills qualifications such as CCNA Microsoft MCP. This project is designed to increase Yorkshire's capacity to train ICT specialists by making these courses available in a much wider range of public sector locations - colleges, universities and learning centres.

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Scottish Qualifications Authority - www.sqa.org.uk
E-Assessment Strategy

SQA awards the majority of school and college qualifications in Scotland. 3Square is working with SQA to develop a strategy for delivering examination services using ICT.