RIPPLLing our way to a Reference Model

1
RIPPLLing our way to a Reference Model

• Clive Church, CETIS
• Angela Smallwood, University of Nottingham

2
ePortfolios Premise

• Everyone has a different view of what an
  ePortfolio contains
• Everyone is right

3
Applying from school to college
Goals and Aspirations
Personal Details
Goals and Aspirations
Qualification Details
Courses to be applied for
Institutions Attended
Interests
Personal Achievements
Application to College Generator
The Nottingham LEA ePassportfolio system
4
Underlying Philosophy
data components
Data components can be stored on different
systemsComponents can be transferable from
system to system
Appropriate components can be accessed from
individual applications
School/ Home
School/ Home
School/ Home
School
School
School / Home
School
Goals and Aspirations
Qualification Details
Personal Details
Institutions Attended
Personal Achievements
Interests
Coursework
Application to College Generator
5
..and the components conform to standards
GOAL
QCL
ACTIVITY
Coursework
Qualifications, Certificates and Licences
INTERESTS
ID
Schools, colleges attended
Table of Rights
AFFILIATIONS
SECURITY
RELATIONSHIPS
ACCESSIBILTY
COMPETENCY
TRANSCRIPT
For example between QCI and a portfolio
Summary of all achievements
The LEAP (British Standard BS 8788) Space
6
ePortfolio DevelopmentsNottingham University and
partners

• 1. RIPPLL (Regional Interoperability Project on
  Progression for Lifelong Learning)
• Test LEAP for moving data both between
  institutions and also between institution and
  employer (in both directions)
• Pilot LEAP within the City of Nottingham Passport
  and support development of new Passportfolio
  system as fully LEAP compliant
• Provide a range of scenarios and use cases
• Partners
• Nottingham Trent University
• Nottingham LEA
• West Notts College, Broxtowe College,
• New College Nottingham, Newark College
• Toyota Lexus Academy
• SMEs in IT industry

7
City of Nottingham Passport(One use case school
to college)
App School ILP (years 9 to 11)
Inter ests
ID
Accessibility
Goal
ID
QCL 1
Inter ests
Goal
Acces sibility
App Build an application to College
Other data
App Transmitting Results
From Awarding Body?
Colleges data
ID
Acces sibility
QCL 2
Goal
ID
QCL 1
QCL 2
Inter ests
Other Data
App Build ILP framework ???
8
Regional Interoperability Project on Progression
for Lifelong Learning (RIPPLL)
Use cases pathways through learning
Contribution to Interoperability standards
Testing Standards
Authentication
.and its link to Lifelong Learning
Goal Setting
Applications to work, college, university
Progress reflection
Individual Learning Plans
Assessment
Recording achievements
Guidance
9
RIPPLLing thro the region

• FE applications process ?
• All post-16 colleges in the region involved
• Dissemination of
• Awareness
• Know-how
• Technical infrastructure
• Enabling further collaboration in future to share
  data via web services
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/rippll/keydocuments.htm

10
(No Transcript)
11
ePF4LL original concept
12
Areas covered by RIPPLL
13
Areas studied by eP4LL
14
Data transfer and data look-up

• ePF4LL started with data transfer and moved on to
  data look-up via web services within the
  Framework
• It is exploring the idea of the thin ePF
  application, interacting with ePF-enabled
  services
• Feasibility of ePF for LLL depends partly on
  reusability of technology patterns identifying
  analogous processes and common web services

15
Thin ePortfolio -- illustration
16
Synergies

• RIPPLL ? Reference Model
• Real world testbed
• Scenarios and use cases
• Reference Model ? RIPPLL
• Web services approach
• Shibboleth distributed access to data far more
  workable model

17
ePortfolio DevelopmentsNottingham University
(and partners)

• 2. Reference Model eP4LL (e-portfolio for
  Lifelong Learning)
• More e-portfolio use cases with methodology
• Definition of common services (the generic
  software that links data and software together
  such as an orchestration service)
• Contributions to technical standards development
• Source of expertise for government and its
  agencies.

18
Technical Achievements

• Use of LEAP
• Use of XSLT (extensible style sheet language
  transform)
• Web service in receivers domain

School
College
Web Service
Parser
Database
ePassportfolio Data

• Validation of Shibboleth

19
Links with Assessment Reference Model (FREMA) A
Domain View
Student Feedback
Evidence
Tracking
Artefacts
Learning
Schedule
Assessment
Course
Delivery
Group
Peer Group
Multiplicity
Marking
Member
Structuring
Grade book
Mock
Items
Transcript
Validation
Final Grade
Self assess Mark
Review
20
FREMA A Domain view overlapping with
e-portfolios
Student Feedback
Evidence
Tracking
Artefacts
Learning
Schedule
Assessment
Course
Delivery
Group
Peer Group
Multiplicity
Marking
Member
Structuring
Grade book
Mock
Items
Transcript
Validation
Final Grade
Self assess Mark
Review
21
Future technical developments.. 1. Inclusion
of authentication2. Creation of more generic
web services (SOAP, WSDL..)
School/ Home
School/ Home
School/ Home
School
School
School / Home
School
Goals and Aspirations
Qualification Details
Personal Details
Institutions Attended
Personal Achievements
Interests
Coursework
Access rights service
Access rights service
Access rights service
Access rights service
Access rights service
Access rights service
Orchestration between services and authentication
Personal Guidance