LTSN Engineering Learning

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID 2000 Project
• HEFCE funded project
• FDTL (Phase 3)
• Three Year Project
• RAPID Progress File

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File
• RAPID Recording Academic, Professional
  Individual Development
• RAPID A Web-based Personal Professional
  Development Planning Tool

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File
• PACE means to record personal, academic,
  employment details etc.
• SPEED means to audit skills, to plan and reflect
  upon skill development, and to record evidence of
  competence

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File Skills
• Three strands of skill
• Key Skills
• Personal Professional Skills
• Technical Skills (based on the competence
  requirements of the relevant Professional
  Institution)

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File
• Civil Engineering version
• Technical Skills based on the Institution of
  Civil Engineers (ICE) Core Objectives
• ICE Endorsement Under development in
  conjunction with the Institution of Civil
  Engineers

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File Development
• Construction Management
• Architectural Technology
• Civil Engineering
• Quantity / Building Surveying
• Town Planning

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File Development
• Building Engineering
• Graduate Apprenticeship (Graduate Professional
  Development Award)
• Transport Management

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID 2000 Project Implementation
• 2001-2002 9 HE Institutions
• 2002-2003 12 HE Institutions
• 1500 Students

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID 2000 Project Implementation
• Loughborough University
• Anglia Polytechnic University
• Bolton Institute
• Liverpool John Moores University
• UMIST
• University of Central England (UCE)
• University of Manchester
• University of Sheffield
• University of the West of England (UWE)

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID 2000 Project Implementation (This academic
  year)
• Coventry University
• University of Greenwich
• University of Kingston

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID 2000 Project
• Implementation contexts
• Support / assess work-based learning
• Integrated into existing practice
• Requirement for progression
• Support project-based activity

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File
• Beyond 2003
• Transfer ownership of each version of RAPID to
  the respective Professional Institution
• License RAPID to interested HE Institutions

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File
• Beyond 2003
• License Agreements in place
• University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
• University of Glamorgan
• - re EU funded Network 75 project

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• RAPID Progress File
• Beyond 2003
• To seek Continuation funding
• to develop and disseminate an Engineering
  version of the RAPID Progress File
• - based on the qualities, attributes skills of
  an engineer, as identified in the Subject
  Benchmark Statement for Engineering

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LTSN Engineering - Learning Teaching Resources
- 06/09/02

• http//rapid.lboro.ac.uk/ice
• A.P.Maddocks_at_lboro.ac.uk