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LSRN Summer Conference, Whatever Happened to the Learning Age?

LSRN Summer Conference, Whatever Happened to the Learning Age? Bridgewater, Somerset, July 7 th 2006. Feeling the elephant…..?. UK e-Learning Strategy.

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LSRN Summer Conference, Whatever Happened to the Learning Age?

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  1. LSRN Summer Conference, Whatever Happened to the Learning Age? Bridgewater, Somerset, July 7th 2006 Feeling the elephant…..?

  2. UK e-Learning Strategy e-Learning and e-delivery have the potential to offer complete and personalised support for learners’ needs throughout the learning process, from information, advice and diagnostics through to an electronic learning log at the completion of a course. Electronic portfolios give learners easy access to their next stage of learning … A portfolio would allow both summative assessment and information about personal aspirations and interests to be owned by the learner … All education and training organisations have the responsibility to contribute to a learner’s e-portfolio for lifelong learning and support their development and progression. - Harnessing Technology, DfES, 2005

  3. From 2005 the QAA requires that all university undergraduates have their own personal planning programme. • Key to the Tomlinson thinking for development post 14 was that every individual should have an e transcript to hold details of qualifications and achievement in the skills area. • The development at QCA of a new Framework for Achievement has further urged the need for an e portfolio. • In the report of the Burgess group on degree classifications, it is suggested that a transcript of performance might replace the current degree classifications. • Corporate learning logs, rarely owned by the individual employee because others, such as compliance officers, need to have access.

  4. Lifelong Learning • Learners & ‘Non-Learners’ • Permission to Learn • Formal & Informal Learning • Tacit Knowledge • Personalised Learning • Collaboration Policy driving Learning Behaviour? Learning behaviour driving Policy?

  5. eportfolios - key issues Recording & representing progress Learner control External access (for support as well as assessment) Providing structure & navigation Integrating with learning environments

  6. http://www.vitaelity.co.uk/progressfile/default.asp

  7. What e-portfolios offer to individuals Individual knowledge management A history of development and growth A planning and goal setting tool Assisting learners to make connections between learning experiences (formal and informal) Learners’ assessment of future learning plans linked to previous successes and failures Personal control of learning history (can be with organizational control).

  8. UK E-Portfolio Approaches As continuing professional development: Royal College of Nursing Learning Zone; Managed information about choices in learning & related employment opportunities: The Signposter Programme; As portable ICT qualifications: eSkills Sector Skills Council eSkills Passport; As supporting evidence for NVQ qualifications: SkillsFolio; As commercial job development service: F1 Motorsport Careers; For lifelong learning: City of Nottingham Passport, Careers Wales Online, SWOOP.

  9. SWOOP – South West Opportunities for Older People “e-Portfolio Development - to engage and enable learners to represent aptitudes and achievements, & to develop new skills for employability through personal portfolios”

  10. Key Idea To develop eportfolios to support the process of representation & recognition of older peoples’ experience, capacities, aptitudes & attainments so that the process of gaining &/or developing employment is enhanced for the benefit of the individual & the employer.

  11. SWOOP ePortfolio Action Project : Pilot Groups Pilot Project 1 Learning South West Learning Mentor Development in SMEs Pilot Project 3 Age Concern Centre Bridgewater to develop an eportfolio development service Pilot Project 2 PRIME Business & Enterprise Development Pilot Project 5 Exeter CVS Volunteer Placement Development Pilot Project 6 FE Sector (Bournemouth & Poole College) Pilot Project 4 Local Authority (Devon County Council & LGA)

  12. The six Pilot Projects have distinctly different characteristics in terms of: Users; Partners; Eportfolio elements/modules (pilots will develop & trial different aspects of the eportfolio system: hence Pilot Project 4 might focus on the use of psychometrics & assessment, while Pilot Project 6 might focus on storage & retrieval of evidence); Access models; Guidance & support models.

  13. … but they would share consideration of generic requirements, such as:  Ease & flexibility of product & system. Appropriateness of system in supporting diversity of user. Expandability of the product. Integration of the product from PC-based for use with other Virtual Learning Environments & with mobile technologies. User support: mentors / tutors / peers / learning champions …….

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