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University of Birmingham: Progress Files Seminar and Workshop Event Implementing Internet Personal and Academic Records at the Institutional Level. Dr Geoff Hammond Director of Faculty of Medicine Computing Centre and Deputy Director of LTSN-01 Subject Centre and Paul Drummond
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University of Birmingham: Progress Files Seminar and Workshop EventImplementing Internet Personal and Academic Records at the Institutional Level Dr Geoff Hammond Director of Faculty of Medicine Computing Centre and Deputy Director of LTSN-01 Subject Centre and Paul Drummond Deputy Director of Faculty of Medicine Computing Centre University of Newcastle upon Tyne
DfEE HEQE Recording Achievement Theme • Internet-PARs Project (1998 - 2000) Partnership between Universities of Newcastle and Nottingham to:- … design, evaluate and disseminate a … process, facilitated by … C&IT, which would enable HEIs … to construct PARs … accessible on the Internet … owned by the HE sector … to form the basis of a continuing record of lifelong reflective learning and personal development …
student processes • supporting and guiding academic progress • recording achievements inside and outside the curriculum • reviewing progress • planning for the future • staff processes • building on existing good practice • enriching tutor-tutee contact time • using administration time effectively • building a resource for reference writing • institutional processes • monitoring student progress and tailoring support and guidance • integration of learning support with Management Information and Student Record Systems
End Users (students, staff) Faculty / Department Institution (MIS) personalised focus access to own data supporting learning mixed data owners pedagogic focus assessment, progress institutional data owners administrative focus currency & accuracy
institutional data tool, access and configuration data software libraries individual tool scripts finished web page
summary of the project • student and tutor “owned” • part transcript / part reflective tool • enriches face-to-face contact time • efficient use of time • supports QA processes • multiple views with differing functionality • tool set supports variety of processes • flexible and configurable at various levels • institution • faculty • department • individual
Newcastle-Nottingham Internet-PARs Project Phase 2: Making New Links (2000 - 2002) • DfEE / DfES funded, HEFCE administered • … web-based systems to support continuing professional development (CPD) … • in Medicine (pre-registration house officers) • in Education (newly-qualified teachers) • … dissemination of experience of implementing both paper-based and web-based PARs at the institutional level … • a range of types of consultancy available to HEIs to facilitate planning and PDP implementation
communicate study learn reflect evidence appraise (re) validate -5 R 5 10 communication… assessments… formal study… reflection… appraisals… learning… (re) validation… evidencing… assess
GMC benchmarks teaching & learning assessment: emi data interp. OSCE in-course etc. curriculum and student experiential learning reflective instrument evidence log graduation outcomes – degree prog. specs. what how who achievement of outcomes Fitness for Purpose work based learning
Year 3 Year 2 Year 1 pastoral tutor academic tutors admin staff communicate programme dir module leader -5 R 5 10
learning environment experience / practice experiment / apply review / reflect think / conceptualise communicate study Benchmarks Outcomes DP Specs Study Guides Learning Resources -5 R 5 10 experiential learning cycle
communicate study Benchmarks Outcomes DP Specs Study Guides Learning Resources personal & academic record learning log evidence -5 R 5 10 evidence learning experiential learning cycle
assess assess communicate study Benchmarks Outcomes DP Specs Study Guides Learning Resources personal & academic record student transcript learning log evidence assess -5 R 5 10 experiential learning cycle
communicate study Benchmarks Outcomes DP Specs Study Guides Learning Resources personal & academic record student transcript learning log reflect evidence assess -5 R 5 10 experiential learning cycle assess assess
Managed Learning Environment(after JISC) Newcastle NLE curriculum map - outcomes delivery - campus and at distance learning resources self-assessment quality process tutor/mentor support off-line learning communication tracking registers student record system business systems other agencies other colleges personal academic record (PAR) and transcript for reflective learning - triggered by learning experiences related to outcomes
finally…. • PARs could (should?) be integrated into an MLE and used to evidence / reflect / action plan - triggered by learning experiences • professional requirements for reflective practice are beginning to drive the UG agenda • a ‘lifelong’ view of PARs / PDP / Portfolios offers great opportunities to HE for supporting CPD activities
further information http://www.internet-pars.ac.uk http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/genericcentre http://www.recordingachievement.org