Paul is a Senior Research Fellow and has an engineering background. He's involved in CALL's assessment and support service for pupils, with a particular responsibility for access technology for pupils with physical disabilities; and for technology to enable students with dyslexia or literacy difficulties access the curriculum.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 17th April, 2025
Category Assistive Technology
We are delighted to share the good news that we have received additional funding from the Scottish Government to support our work in 2025-2026! This will enable us to enhance our services and products and recruit more staff to the CALL Scotland team.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 23rd January, 2025
Category Digital Exams Assistive Technology
Last week we had an excellent additional webinar from Nic Cardwell of exam.net and Andy Auld and Adam Llewellyn from Larbert High School. If you're interested in using iPads, Chromebooks or Windows devices for digital assessment arrangements, check out the archive recording of the webinar.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd January, 2025
Category Assistive Technology Communication Aids
This week our colleague Claire Harrison embarks on an exciting trip to the United States as a prestigious "AT Scholar", representing the UK at the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd January, 2025
Category Assistive Technology
Today at BETT 2025, Kirsteen presented a session on Integrating assistive technology in mainstream classrooms. It's great to see a member of the CALL Scotland team contributing at an international event.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 27th November, 2024
Category Speech Recognition Assistive Technology
Are you looking for help about teaching pupils to use Speech-to-Text dictation? Try this free online course.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 19th November, 2024
Category Assistive Technology
The ASL Action Plan has just been updated but 'assistive technology' and 'digital learning' are not mentioned at all despite Scottish Government saying that "Digital learning must be at the core of Scottish education". This is not good enough.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 9th August, 2024
Category Digital Exams Assistive Technology
SQA have published information about Assessment Arrangements in the 2024 examinations last term which show that the use of technology and digital papers are becoming more popular compared to readers and scribes.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 1st August, 2024
Category Dyslexia Communication Aids
Pupils using Windows PCs have been able to use free Scottish and Gaelic computer voices for learning and communicating since 2008, but voice options on iPads have been limited. But now you can get the Scottish and Gaelic voices for your iPad or iPhone!
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 13th June, 2024
Category Digital Exams Assistive Technology
SQA have announced a new policy on the use of internet-connected devices in examinations: it will be allowed, provided the candidates cannot access any information that might help them in the exam.
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 10th June, 2024
Category Digital Exams Assistive Technology
This article summarises trials of digital assessment arrangements for SQA examinations over the last session and suggests implications for 2024-2025. Find out more by attending the session at ASL & Technology on 12th June 2024.
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