PDP Forum

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PDP Forum

• The forum's aims are to
• discuss areas of common interest
• share effective practice
• identify other forms of institutional level
  support

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Priorities/challenges identified (2 events
May/June 2007)

• Staff engagement
• Student engagement
• Assessment
• More integrated approaches
• Transferability
• Developing the academic/personal tutor role

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PDP Forum activities 2007-8

• Two meetings on PDP implementation (Paisley and
  Glasgow Caledonian)
• Two practitioner-focused events (St Andrews and
  Napier) aimed at sharing practice
• An online repository to allow simplified access
  to a range of PDP/e-portfolio practice
  (http//www.recordingachievement.org/practitioners
  /default.asp)
• A new Scottish HE PDP mailing list (currently 115
  recipients, all Scottish HEIs represented (and
  some English))
• Added to page on Academys website
• Commissioning a project to develop a new set of
  guidelines for institutions to support PDP
  implementation

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How effective is the PDP Forum?

• Forum is sector-led, so feedback and evaluation
  important way of informing our work
• Most positive aspect of the Forum is sharing
  practice and networking opportunities
• Sharing across disciplines and institutions
• US colleagues
• Evaluation (asking what people would do, then
  asking if they did it) has given concrete
  evidence of this

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Future work?

• Research into an evaluation framework for PDP
  research our own practice
• To inform our own work
• As a way of engaging staff to present robust
  evidence and move beyond the best practice
  approach
• Student ePortfolios in non-vocational disciplines
• Format/design of ePortfolios and ePortfolio
  software
• PDP back to basics
• Terminology, meaning in the 21st Century
• Potential impact of HEAR
• sharing practice, induction strategies,
  assessment, links with other sectors (schools,
  college, employers)

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Further information

• Mailing list
• scotland_at_heacademy.ac.uk
• Website
• http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/aboutus/scotland/instit
  utions/pdpforum

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