Specifying an e-Portfolio: Project outputs and outcomes
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Executive Summary
Recommendations
Technical developments
Briefings (interactions with national policy development)
Resources
Presentations
Scenarios and use cases
Reports
Papers
Publications
Technical developments
- UCAS system mapped to UK LeaP (pilots 2006-7 for 2007 entry)
- Data transfers between Nottingham Passport and University of Nottingham, and between UCAS and University of Nottingham
- Interim technical report, including
- outline of experience working with LIP
- technical documentation (profiles of LIP/UK LeaP for pilots and for UCAS) - Technical solution: basic illustration of implementation of structured personal statements mandated by HEIs via web services http://conp.ebrey.net
Briefings (interactions with national policy development)
- Formal advice commissioned by DfES from Peter Rees Jones propmpted by the JISC work at Nottingham identifying how the findings of this work could support the implementation of the Department's eStrategy. The IPR belongs to DfES; Peter Rees Jones is discussing general release of this with DfES
- Emerging Findings paper prepared for the DfES (Dec 2004)
- Response input to the Schwartz consultation on draft report on Fair Admissions to HE, May 04
- Briefing paper input by project team to Schwartz committee (Jan 2004)
Resources
- Workshop materials from project Invitation Seminar on 16 June 2005: templates for Transitions to work/work-based learning and Concurrent education and employment
- Document set: 'Proposal for a soft template for structured personal statements providing enhanced learner information linked to UCAS Course Entry Profiles and personal development planning (PDP)
- An integrated methodology for building scenarios and use cases, covering technology, policy and both pedagogic and administrative practice
Presentations
Note: the following are given in chronological order: in some cases presentations represent re-working and re-thinking of earlier versions. All files are in MS PowerPoint format.
- FE to HE: joining up phases of PDP via admissions processes, JISC Programme Meeting, Cambridge, June 2005
- The developing UK agenda: progress and potential Plenary presentation from project invitation seminar, Nottingham, 16 June 2005
- ePortfolios in Scotland: A Developing Agenda Plenary presentation from project invitation seminar, Nottingham, 16 June 2005
- Developing a Reference Model of ePortfolio Plenary presentation from project invitation seminar, Nottingham, 16 June 2005
- Project in context, Project Scottish conference, Paisley, May 2005
- Definition and potential of an ePortfolio
- Developing a concept of ePortfolio: the local project
- Individual Support for Learning through ePortfolio (ISLE)
- From complexity to clarity: an FE perspective
- FE to HE: joining up phases of PDP via admissions processes 'Joining the Electronic Dots' CRA/LLSP event, Sheffield Hallam University, May 2005
- Win-win? Deliver Schwartz - support wider access - enhance efficiency UCAS Admissions Officers Conference, Keele University, April 2005
- Managing achievement through an ePortfolio Presentation on Nottingham Passport, April 2005
- Electronic PDP programmes in HE Action on Access seminar, Derby, March 2005
- Specifying an e-portfolio: Enhanced learner information for flexible admissions and transition into Higher Education PDP in HE Scotland consultative seminar, January 2005
- Implementing e-Portfolios for Lifelong Learning in Europe Briefing paper and presentation EDUCA Online, Berlin, December 2004
- Briefing by project team for the Steering Committee Nottingham, November 2004
- e-Portfolios: a tool to support the development of learners EMINENT invitation conference for European Ministries of Education, Prague, November 2004
- Establishing Lifelong Learning UCAS & the electronic-Diploma Supplement (e-DS) presentation to UCISA, November 2004
- Integrating an ePortfolio within a University and the Wider Community workshop presentation, EIfEL ePortfolio conference, La Rochelle, October 2004
- Setting a common European e-DS presentation to the European Diploma Supplement Technology, Exchange and Validation Workshop, Koblenz, October 2004
- Application to 2nd Cycle Pre conditions presentation to the European Diploma Supplement Technology, Exchange and Validation Workshop, Koblenz, October 2004
- Defining ePortfolio in Europe plenary presentation, EIfEL ePortfolio conference, La Rochelle, October 2004
- Specifying an ePortfolio & PDPs in the context of lifelong learning Scottish Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Paisley, September 2004
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Admitting students
and recruiting employees - Analogous uses of e-Portfolios?
Converging Practice in Education and Employment
Removing Barriers, Empowering Learners
What's the use of an e-portfolio? Defining the demand
Plenary presentations from project invitation seminar, Nottingham, June 2004
- Widening participation: Progress Files and ePortfolios All-Wales PDP Conference, Glamorgan, May 2004
- Applicant data, PDPs and Interoperability UCAS Admissions Officers' Conference, April 2004
- HE admissions and progress files across FE and HE CRAC conference, Exeter, March 2004
- Developing an e-portfolio to support transitions between episodes of learning EIfEL/Cass Business School event, London, March 2004
- Project overview, launch of Paisley strand of project, Paisley, November 2003
[The following 4 presentations are on the University of Paisley web pages at www.paisley.ac.uk/clt/jiscconference/papers.asp]
Scenarios and use cases
Map of project scenarios and use cases
- Scenario O: learner moves from school to FE - an AimHigher student uses the Nottingham Passport to progress from Year 9 to Year 13, and to apply to HE
- Use case O1: Y11 student applies to FE with potential to be first-in-the-family applicant to HE
- Use case O2: FE college use of learner application data provided through an admissions process
- Scenario A: The use of ePortfolio to support transitions between episodes of learning
- Scenario Aa: A GCE A level school leaver submits applications for undergraduate HE via UCAS and receives a response
- Scenario Ab: Use of a soft template for the personal statement element of a web-based application to HE
- Scenario Ac: PDP in Scotland used to prepare for 2+2 application to HE
- Scenario Ad: Next Steps - using a purpose-written module to prepare FE students on a 2+2 route for university entry in Scotland
- Scenario B: Learner moves from college to employment. Use cases are being developed by the Nottingham JISC Regional e4Learning project, RIPPLL
- Scenario C: Application to employment Two outline use cases relating to application to employment after first cycle HE, providing the preconditions for induction to employment [Powerpoint]
- Scenario D: Learner moves directly from first cycle HE to second cycle HE. Two sets of outline use cases, with preconditions, for application to HE in 2006 and for a similar application in 2010
Reports
- Final project report
- Completion report for JISC
- Final Pedagogic evaluation report
- Report on workshop at MLEs dissemination conference 'Joining the Electronic Dots', Sheffield Hallam University, May 2005
- Report from project conference held in Paisley May 2005
- Report on UCAS/University of Paisley [student] focus group, 21 January 2005
- Paisley Admissions Forum report, January 2005
Papers
- Achieving Sustainable Lifelong Learning: Reference Model and Outline Map of Use Cases (Paper by Peter Rees Jones presented to the Project Steering Committee, Nov 2004)
- Positioning and dissemination of the project in the UK (Outline of the position of this project in the light of recent reports by Schwartz and Tomlinson, Nov 2004)
- European Perspectives (Summary of European dissemination activities and events attended by Peter Rees Jones, Nov 2004)
- Integrating an ePortfolio within a University and the Wider Community: paper presented by the Project Team at the European ePortfolio conference in La Rochelle, October 2004
- Issues for Employers: findings of consultative seminar, Nottingham, June 2004
- Pedagogical issues - A Scottish Perspective May 2004
- Building Scenarios paper May 2004
- Paper by Carl Ebrey, Information Services, University of Nottingham
ePARs-IMS LIP XML Prototype overview and technical brief from the XML Interoperability Project
Publications
- ePortfolio developments at the University of Nottingham: executive briefing, October 2005 (forthcoming)