Maquisard

Based in East Lothian, Scotland, Maquisard provides world class consultation and development services in e-learning, digital education, online training. With a network of prize winning software developers we also provide innovative, proven bespoke solutions in competency and outcome management, game informed learning and analytics. Maquisard founder, Michael Begg, has 15+ years experience in e-learning and technology enhanced education. The teams that he has worked with have won numerous prizes including 2 Queens Anniversary Awards. His research profile includes internationally acknowledged achievements in game informed learning, large scale online assessment, deep engagement, and future trends. With a particular interest in medical and healthcare education, Michael has provided consultancy to the Medical Schools Council, and numerous Royal Colleges, and has held visiting expert positions at universities in the UK, the USA (Cleveland, Pittsburgh) and Europe/Scandinavia, including the Karolinska Institute. Michael is a specialist advisor to the Higher Education Academy and is a subject specialist for Capita's Create Tomorrow initiative. He is also a proud associate member to council for Chest, Heart & Stroke (Scotland) a major UK charity. Michael has built a network of unprecedented expertise from which he can draw on to provide tailored services in - cloud provision, scalable online assessment development, competence framework, curricular outcome and other data mappings, e-learning course development