Learning Industries Limited

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Interoperability of Lifelong Learning Records
within FE and Beyond

• Learning Industries Limited
• Ystrad Mynach College

JISC SWaNI Programme 2002-2003
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Partners

• Funding Body
• Joint Information Systems Committee
• Principal Partners
• Learning Industries Limited
• Ystrad Mynach College
• Vendors
• Ufi / Learndirect
• teknical.com

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Context

• Lifelong Learning
• FE External Providers
• Online Delivery
• Ystrad Mynach
• Traditional FE Courses
• Business and Individual Learners
• Community Outreach Centres
• Learndirect Centres

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Context

• SME Partnership
• Private Sector Trainers
• FE
• Learndirect
• ELWa
• Learning Industries Limited
• Learndirect for Business
• Learndirect Premier Business Centre
• Learndirect eCommerce VLS

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Aims and Objectives

• Ultimate Objective
• To pass the ownership of learning and the
  management of learning to the learner
• Project Objectives
• Investigate the application of IMS LIP
• Develop a working interoperability spec.
• Demonstrate interoperability between Lifelong
  Learning Records (PDR/P systems)

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Use Cases
SME Partnership
YM/(FE)
F2F
PDR v1 PDR v2
teknical (VLE)
LLL Organiser
Learndirect
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Application Profiles
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Application Profiles
PDP
Personal
Goals
PDP
PDR
PDP
Activities
Achievements
Planning Data
PDP
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Implementing IMS LIP

• LIP alone is not sufficient to facilitate
  interoperability
• Detailed negotiation on field semantics, data
  format and vocabularies
• Alternate implementations of LIP are possible

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Demonstration Testing
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Working with Vendors

• Commitment
• Timescales and priority
• Equality of partnership
• Engagement and communication

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Cultural Impact

• Lifelong Learning Records
• Immaturity of PDR/P
• LLWR
• Ystrad Mynach College
• Developing eLearning Culture
• Research Project
• Learning Industries
• Expertise in LIP and Interoperability
• Development of Next Generation PDR

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Conclusions

• Demonstrated Interoperability of LLRs
• Detailed Interoperability Specification
• Demarcation of PDR and PDP Data
• LIP Only Initial Interoperability Framework
• Achieving LIFELONG Learning Records?
• Interoperability Key Issue of Future

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Contact

• http//www.learningindustries.com/il3r/
• Dr Robert M Lloyd rob_at_learninginndustries.com
• Dean Howells
• dhowells_at_ystrad-mynach.ac.uk