{"id":1963,"date":"2016-08-10T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T12:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2016-08-10T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T12:15:17","slug":"hnc-digital-design-web-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/hnc-digital-design-web-development\/","title":{"rendered":"HNC\/D Digital Design &amp; Web Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/validation-event-for-hncd-interactive-media\/\">validation event<\/a> for the revised <em>HNC\/D Interactive Media<\/em> took place in June and since then we&#8217;ve been addressing the conditions and recommendations.\u00a0We&#8217;re just about there. The only task that remains is finalising the Graded Units.\u00a0 As noted previously, the revised qualification has new titles:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>1. HNC Digital Design &amp; Web Development<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2. HND Digital Design &amp; Development<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3. HND Web Development.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted with how these awards have turned out. They have been thoroughly updated with new titles, new contents and new approaches. Component units include: <em>Digital Graphics Fundamentals<\/em>, <em>User Interface Design<\/em>, <em>Digital Marketing<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Physical Computing<\/em> and <em>Emerging Technologies &amp; Experiences<\/em>. To take one of these &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/files\/hn\/HF8534.pdf\">Emerging Technologies<\/a> unit. This covers virtual and augmented reality, big data, the Internet of Things, virtual worlds and machine intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>We still have to code the qualification (which will take a week or two) before there is a subject page for these new awards, but in the meantime you can download\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/w\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhNZ82Vd0sVfpjvsI3w\">Group Award Specification<\/a> (which covers\u00a0all three awards) and get\u00a0the units in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/controller?p_service=Front.searchHN&amp;g=0&amp;t=hn_unit&amp;q=&amp;r=&amp;pContentID=411&amp;pMenuID=117\">usual place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you have any queries about these awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The validation event for the revised HNC\/D Interactive Media took place in June and since then we&#8217;ve been addressing the conditions and recommendations.\u00a0We&#8217;re just about there. The only task that remains is finalising the Graded Units.\u00a0 As noted previously, the revised qualification has new titles: 1. HNC Digital Design &amp; Web Development 2. HND Digital Design &amp; Development 3. HND Web Development. I&#8217;m delighted with how these awards have turned out. They have been thoroughly updated with new titles, new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}