LSRN Summer Conference, Whatever Happened to the Learning Age?

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LSRN Summer Conference, Whatever Happened to the
Learning Age? Bridgewater, Somerset, July 7th
2006
Feeling the elephant..?
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UK e-Learning Strategy
e-Learning and e-delivery have the potential to
offer complete and personalised support for
learners needs throughout the learning process,
from information, advice and diagnostics through
to an electronic learning log at the completion
of a course.   Electronic portfolios give
learners easy access to their next stage of
learning A portfolio would allow both summative
assessment and information about personal
aspirations and interests to be owned by the
learner All education and training
organisations have the responsibility to
contribute to a learners e-portfolio for
lifelong learning and support their development
and progression. - Harnessing Technology, DfES,
2005
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• From 2005 the QAA requires that all university
  undergraduates have their own personal planning
  programme.
• Key to the Tomlinson thinking for development
  post 14 was that every individual should have an
  e transcript to hold details of qualifications
  and achievement in the skills area.
• The development at QCA of a new Framework for
  Achievement has further urged the need for an e
  portfolio.
• In the report of the Burgess group on degree
  classifications, it is suggested that a
  transcript of performance might replace the
  current degree classifications.
• Corporate learning logs, rarely owned by the
  individual employee because others, such as
  compliance officers, need to have access.

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• Lifelong Learning
• Learners Non-Learners
• Permission to Learn
• Formal Informal Learning
• Tacit Knowledge

• Personalised Learning
• Collaboration

Policy driving Learning Behaviour?
Learning behaviour driving Policy?
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• eportfolios - key issues

Recording representing progress Learner
control External access (for support as well as
assessment) Providing structure
navigation Integrating with learning environments
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What e-portfolios offer to individuals

• Individual knowledge management
• A history of development and growth
• A planning and goal setting tool
• Assisting learners to make connections between
  learning experiences (formal and informal)
• Learners assessment of future learning plans
  linked to previous successes and failures
• Personal control of learning history (can be
  with organizational control).

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UK E-Portfolio Approaches

• As continuing professional development Royal
  College of Nursing Learning Zone
• Managed information about choices in learning
  related employment opportunities The
  Signposter Programme
• As portable ICT qualifications eSkills Sector
  Skills Council eSkills Passport
• As supporting evidence for NVQ qualifications
  SkillsFolio
• As commercial job development service F1
  Motorsport Careers
• For lifelong learning City of Nottingham
  Passport, Careers Wales Online, SWOOP.

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SWOOP South West Opportunities for Older People
e-Portfolio Development - to engage and enable
learners to represent aptitudes and achievements,
to develop new skills for employability through
personal portfolios

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Key Idea To develop eportfolios to support the
process of representation recognition of older
peoples experience, capacities, aptitudes
attainments so that the process of gaining /or
developing employment is enhanced for the benefit
of the individual the employer.

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SWOOP ePortfolio Action Project Pilot Groups
Pilot Project 1 Learning South West Learning
Mentor Development in SMEs
Pilot Project 3 Age Concern Centre Bridgewater to
develop an eportfolio development service
Pilot Project 2 PRIME Business Enterprise
Development
Pilot Project 5 Exeter CVS Volunteer Placement
Development
Pilot Project 6 FE Sector (Bournemouth Poole
College)
Pilot Project 4 Local Authority (Devon County
Council LGA)
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• The six Pilot Projects have distinctly different
  characteristics in terms of
• Users
• Partners
• Eportfolio elements/modules (pilots will develop
  trial different aspects of the eportfolio
  system hence Pilot Project 4 might focus on the
  use of psychometrics assessment, while Pilot
  Project 6 might focus on storage retrieval of
  evidence)
• Access models
• Guidance support models.

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• but they would share consideration of generic
  requirements, such as
•  Ease flexibility of product system.
• Appropriateness of system in supporting
  diversity of user.
• Expandability of the product.
• Integration of the product from PC-based for use
  with other Virtual Learning Environments with
  mobile technologies.
• User support mentors / tutors / peers /
  learning champions .

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