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{"id":1064,"date":"2012-11-22T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wordpress\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2012-11-22T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T21:27:21","slug":"live-from-tallinn-does-qa-lead-to-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Live from Tallinn: Does QA lead to enhancement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1077\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG00240-20121122-1630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1077\" title=\"EQAF conference\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG00240-20121122-1630-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Awaiting Jethro Newton's keynote\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG00240-20121122-1630-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG00240-20121122-1630-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG00240-20121122-1630.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Awaiting Jethro Newton's keynote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I promised that I would blog and tweet from the European Quality Assurance Forum.<\/p>\n<p>This evening we were treated to a keynote address from Jethro Newton (University of Chester) on the question, 'Does quality assurance lead to enhancement?' One of his central points is there has been very little actual research into this question.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Newton also used the term 'Quality Revolution' to describe the changes in QA since the early 1990s. A member of the audience challenged him on this- it does seem to suggest something more radical than actually happened.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"aditya-social\" id=\"aditya-cssanime\">\n<li class=\"aditya-twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" title=\"Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064&amp;title=Live+from+Tallinn%3A+Does+QA+lead+to+enhancement%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"del.icio.us\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/delicious.png\" alt=\"del.icio.us\" title=\"del.icio.us\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-digg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064&amp;title=Live+from+Tallinn%3A+Does+QA+lead+to+enhancement%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg\" title=\"Digg\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064&amp;t=Live+from+Tallinn%3A+Does+QA+lead+to+enhancement%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-technorati\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?add=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Technorati\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/technorati.png\" alt=\"Technorati\" title=\"Technorati\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-reddit\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=Live+from+Tallinn%3A+Does+QA+lead+to+enhancement%3F&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Reddit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/reddit.png\" alt=\"Reddit\" title=\"Reddit\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-yahoo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.yahoo.com\/submit?submitUrl=Live+from+Tallinn%3A+Does+QA+lead+to+enhancement%3F&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Yahoo Buzz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/yahoo.png\" alt=\"Yahoo Buzz\" title=\"Yahoo Buzz\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"aditya-stumbleupon\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohncanning.net%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D1064&amp;title=Live+from+Tallinn%3A+Does+QA+lead+to+enhancement%3F&amp;newcomment=Live+from+Tallinn%3A+Does+QA+lead+to+enhancement%3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"StumbleUpon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-add-social-bookmarks\/images\/stumbleupon.png\" alt=\"StumbleUpon\" title=\"StumbleUpon\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised that I would blog and tweet from the European Quality Assurance Forum. This evening we were treated to a keynote address from Jethro Newton (University of Chester) on the question, 'Does quality assurance lead to enhancement?' One of his central points is there has been very little actual research into this question. Professor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/?p=1064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Live from Tallinn: Does QA lead to enhancement?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,56],"tags":[211,226,135],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eqaf","category-quality","tag-eqaf","tag-quality","tag-tallinn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}