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en five times a year and must be taken in person in order to obtain a cer-
tificate (Verdisco, 2002).
Scotland has developed a nationally available digital environment for
learning called Glow Connect that also supports programmes that lead to
a formal certificate. Glow is the world’s first national intranet for education
and connects 800,000 learners and teachers across Scotland. Glow encom-
passes over 2,700 schools, 750,000 school students and over 50,000 teach-
ing staff; there is also the capacity to accommodate 700,000 parents with-
in the system. It is funded by the Scottish Government and managed by
Learning and Teaching Scotland. A number of contractual stakeholders are
identified as users of Glow, among them local authorities, faculties of ed-
ucation and several governing institutions. It provides access to a range of
digital tools and services, and an environment in which learners and teach-
ers can create, collaborate and innovate (Glow Connect, n.d.). Therefore,
it is designed as a multi-professional system and inter-agency cooperation
that supports several different types of experts and stakeholders. Glow is
not just a platform but also offers a username and password that gives ac-
cess to several different web services: Microsoft Office 365 (provides storage
space on Microsoft’s cloud storage service), WordPress blogs (online blog-
ging system storage), Wikispaces wikis (a social writing platform for edu-
cation, easy to create an online classroom workspace where teachers and
students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams)
and Adobe Connect (a web conferencing software service for online meet-
ing experiences for collaboration, virtual classrooms and large-scale we-
binars) as part of a Broadcasting service (Glow TV and Glow Meet). Glow
provides a variety of safe and secure cloud-based services for collaborative,
innovative and social learning, co-creation, and easy web publishing. Glow
accounts are available to all schools and education establishments across
Scotland, including independent schools and teacher education colleges/
universities (Glow Connect, n.d.).
Other models are less formal and involve the use of a varie-
ty of tools, including case studies or e-mail discussion boards (such as
SecondChanceEducation.eu or Opening-up-Slovenia).
The SecondChanceEducation.eu project is an initiative of the Digital
Second Chance Opportunities project and is a learning platform for ed-
ucators. This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission and is carried out by an international consortium. It focusses
on the quality improvement of second-chance education, paying particular
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tificate (Verdisco, 2002).
Scotland has developed a nationally available digital environment for
learning called Glow Connect that also supports programmes that lead to
a formal certificate. Glow is the world’s first national intranet for education
and connects 800,000 learners and teachers across Scotland. Glow encom-
passes over 2,700 schools, 750,000 school students and over 50,000 teach-
ing staff; there is also the capacity to accommodate 700,000 parents with-
in the system. It is funded by the Scottish Government and managed by
Learning and Teaching Scotland. A number of contractual stakeholders are
identified as users of Glow, among them local authorities, faculties of ed-
ucation and several governing institutions. It provides access to a range of
digital tools and services, and an environment in which learners and teach-
ers can create, collaborate and innovate (Glow Connect, n.d.). Therefore,
it is designed as a multi-professional system and inter-agency cooperation
that supports several different types of experts and stakeholders. Glow is
not just a platform but also offers a username and password that gives ac-
cess to several different web services: Microsoft Office 365 (provides storage
space on Microsoft’s cloud storage service), WordPress blogs (online blog-
ging system storage), Wikispaces wikis (a social writing platform for edu-
cation, easy to create an online classroom workspace where teachers and
students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams)
and Adobe Connect (a web conferencing software service for online meet-
ing experiences for collaboration, virtual classrooms and large-scale we-
binars) as part of a Broadcasting service (Glow TV and Glow Meet). Glow
provides a variety of safe and secure cloud-based services for collaborative,
innovative and social learning, co-creation, and easy web publishing. Glow
accounts are available to all schools and education establishments across
Scotland, including independent schools and teacher education colleges/
universities (Glow Connect, n.d.).
Other models are less formal and involve the use of a varie-
ty of tools, including case studies or e-mail discussion boards (such as
SecondChanceEducation.eu or Opening-up-Slovenia).
The SecondChanceEducation.eu project is an initiative of the Digital
Second Chance Opportunities project and is a learning platform for ed-
ucators. This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission and is carried out by an international consortium. It focusses
on the quality improvement of second-chance education, paying particular
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