Eric Shepherd Wins Lifetime Contribution Award from e-Assessment Association
Summary
Desmond Bermingham, ACER UKs CEO, presented by the award to Eric at the e-Assessment Association gala event yesterday evening. The eAA Awards were launched in 2016 to highlight and celebrate the outstanding and positive contributions that technology makes to all forms of assessment, and has gone on to showcase the best practice, research and innovation in the sector. Eric recently stepped down as Questionmark’s CEO role where he worked with others to build Questionmark into a multi-million-dollar international assessment software businesses with a passion for customer, employee and partner success. Eric was instrumental in developing the IMS QTI interoperability standard and assisted with the US Department of Defense Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative to define the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and the Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC) to define launch and track standards for Learning Management Systems. Eric Shepherd (right) wins prestigious e-Assessment Association Lifetime Contribution Award presented by Desmond Bermingham (left), ACER UKs CEO.