HUB Interface Agent

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Making Transition Work The SHELL FE/HE Progress
File

• Dr David Croot
• SHELL PROJECT
• University of Plymouth

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Shell Project

• Background
• What is Shell and who is involved?
• How is it going to work?
• What will be the benefits?
• The longer-term view

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Background

• Regional partnerships with FE colleges
• Widening Participation
• Progress Files
• IT based/e-learning experience interest
• Over 4000 students co-register
• Current administrative processes are inefficient
• Dispersed population, often in small centres
• Courses not always available in local area
• Travel time can be significant

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The JISC 1/01 Programme
Building Managed Learning Environments across HE
and FE

• Develop protocols and standards for the transfer
  of information across institutions
• Develop the theme of student-centred lifelong
  learning
• Explore access to and delivery of learning
  materials across institutions

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SHELL Southwest Hosts Enhancing Lifelong
Learning
Core Group (those who prepared the
bid) University of Plymouth (lead
institution) Cornwall College North Devon
College Exeter College Somerset College of Arts
Technology Wider Consortium (those who
provided letters of support) Bicton
College City of Bristol College East Devon
College Plymouth College of AD Weymouth College
South Devon College Truro College Plymouth
College of FE Highlands College Penwith College
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Project aims
Improve administration with single
registration for all co-registering students and
rapid, efficient transfer of data between
partners Support VLE Development Integration
with timely student access to partner VLE course
materials, and a mechanism for transfer of
results back to partner institutions Support
lifelong learning by providing access to
consortium learner records for all students
registered after the start of the project
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Hub and io-Agents
VLE
SCR
Exam Board
SHELL HUB
SR
PDP
SR
Institution
io-Agent
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Benefits at the end of the project

• Students should benefit from
• Single registration process at their college
• Access to online learning materials at the
  University
• Long-term access to a lifelong personal learner
  record via the Shell web portal
• Potentially smoother transition between
  institutions

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Benefits at the end of the project

• Institutions should benefit from
• Simplified registration processes
• Support for widening participation
• Staff access to learner records
• Help in meeting the personal development agenda
• A facility (based on IMS) for linking
  applications
• within an institution

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Benefits at the end of the project

• JISC Community should benefit from
• A sizeable project linking HE FE
• Development of a lifelong learning record
• A potential national framework

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Project phases
Phase 1 (target September 2003) Implement
for the core group of partners using a
multi-institution learner record based on
qualifications achieved and in progressApproximat
ely 100,000 students in the SCR Phase 2
(target September 2004) Implement for the wider
consortium extending the multi-institution
learner record to include personal
developmentApproximately 300,000 students in the
SCR
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The Longer-Term Vision
Learner Record Regional clusters are created and
the learner record is then built from all UK FE
and HE institutions Schools are linked
in Business Processes Registration processes are
simplified by being able to draw data from a
comprehensive learner source. Awarding bodies and
UCAS are linked in, fundamentally improving the
effectiveness of the exchange of data on learners
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