Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory ELLI

1. Effective Lifelong Learning InventoryELLI September 2008

2. Michael Hush, Technology, R09Chris Edwards, COBE m.hush@open.ac.uk c.h.edwards@open.ac.uk

3. Origins of ELLI • developed over three years • at the University of Bristol • in a project funded by the Lifelong Learning Foundation • seven dimensions of learning ‘that together describe the energy and motivation to learn’ • An online profiling instrument.

4. Dimensions of Learning • If knowledge, skills and understanding of the curriculum form one strand of learning and • attitudes, feelings, dispositions and motivations another • The seven dimensions of learning bind these together.

5. Why Seven? • questionnaire with everything ‘we’ know about learning – internal motivations, dispositions and attributes of learners such as self-regulation, interest, effort, locus of control, self-efficacy etc. and the external factors that impinge on the learner such as the way the subject is taught (pedagogy), the school ethos, the home, family, peer group and wider worldviews and traditions of the learner. • The original questionnaire was sent to 1600 respondents • factor analysis revealed seven dimensions of learning power or seven dimensions that describe the energy to learn and to keep on learning.

6. The dimensions • Changing and learning • Meaning making • Critical curiosity • Creativity • Learning relationships • Strategic awareness • Resilience • Being stuck & static • Data accumulation • Passivity • Being rule bound • Isolation & dependence • Being robotic • Fragility and dependence

7. ELLI claims – for teachers • Enables teachers to focus on learning and learners • Describes the energy to learn in terms of seven dimensions of learning • Provides a vocabulary and language to talk about learning • Describes ways in which teachers release energy for learning in their classrooms

8. ELLI claims – for students • Makes learning learnable • Takes the mystique out of the process of learning for pupils • Enables pupils to focus on different aspects of learning during lessons • Gives a focus to reflect on learning • Provides a way of celebrating achievements in learning alongside curriculum success

9. Process for participants

10. Numbers of participants

11. A typical profile

12. ELLI in HE results • Analysis is continuing • Some groups stand out as stronger or more mature learners • Part time students including those at OU • Work based learning students • There is evidence of patterns relating to those studying the same subject