Transcript Workshop presentation

Implementing an institution-free model of
eportfolio practice across educational sectors:
The Nottingham Experience
Oxford Friday 13 October 2006
Philip Harley
Angela Smallwood
Key priorities for Passportfolio
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Improving transition
Personalised Learning
Improved advice and guidance
Improving and tracking progression
Encourage partnership working
Recognising all achievement
Passportfolio
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Messaging service
Work – a multimedia
online space
Diary – personal
reflection area
Research space
Reminders of targets
Ask Aardvark advice &
support function
Engaging Learners: What could we
evaluate?
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Quality of applications
Effect on induction & retention
Social interactions
What it adds to the curriculum
Usability
Enjoyment, engagement & motivation
Raising self-esteem, self-awareness &
empowerment
Its effect on learning
Engaging Learners: What we did evaluate?
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Meeting stakeholder needs
Usability
Reviewing zone activities
The process of writing a personal
statement
The personal statement
Levels of enjoyment
Levels of self-awareness
Who are the Stakeholders?
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Schools and Colleges
Training Providers & Employers
Higher Education Institutions
Strategic leaders and funders
Advice and guidance services
Engaging Stakeholders
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Identifying institutional priorities and
offering to solve problems
Championing and enabling partnership
and collaboration within an independent
consultative framework
Local strategic agreements
Supporting the varying levels of
awareness and technical knowledge
Nottingham collaborative implementation
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RIPPLL – regional interoperability project for
progression through lifelong learning – joining
up a lifelong learning pathway
Technology group consensus: colleges,
universities, employer-academy and
Passportfolio software company
Richer information making transitions with the
learner  enhanced reception, diagnosis,
induction, retention in the new location
From City to Region – scaling up the
implementation
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UK initiative for Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs):
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/widen/lln/
Policy, Vision, Will, Funding
Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire LLN 2007-10, including
eportfolio development
1: regionalisation of RIPPLL – coherent
infrastructure for Lifelong Learning
2: regionalisation of JOSEPH (2006-09): Lifewide
Regional ePF implementation modelled on
Nottingham cross-sector pilots
UK paradox
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Pursuit of lifelong learning
Culture of institutional autonomy
(competition) and implementation of
eportfolio policy through institutions
Personal ownership of learning VS
institutions as providers and quality-assurers
of learning – HE more complex than school?
The allure and the challenge of institutionfree eportfolios for enabling lifelong/wide
learning