Applicant data, PDPs and Interoperability

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Applicant data, PDPs and Interoperability

• Dr Angela Smallwood
• University of Nottingham
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/padshe
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/e-portfolio

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Dearing Recommendation 20

• Progress File two elements
• A transcript recording student achievement
• a means by which students can monitor, build
  and reflect upon their personal development

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Personal Development Planning

• A structured and supported process undertaken by
  an individual to reflect upon their own learning,
  performance and/or achievement and to plan for
  their personal, educational and career
  development
  May 2000 CVCP, LTSN, QAA, SCoP policy
  recommendations

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National progress with PDP

• UUK/SCoP/LTSN/QAAs target date for implementing
  PDP 2005-2006 session
• UUK survey of progress in the sector Oct.03
• Majority of HEIs active
• Approaching half have PDP policies
• Half expect all their students to be engaged in
  PDP in 2005

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City of Nottm Passport ePARs

• CNP
• Personal statement
• CV
• ILP
• Progress File certificate
• Recording Achievement

• ePARs
• New Entrant Profile
• CV
• Review meetings
• Personal webspace
• Personal Evidence Database

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PDP and Interoperability

• JISC Phase 1 shared MLEs FE ltgt HE
• SHELL Univ of Plymouth FE colleges
• NIMLE HEIs and FEIs in N.Ireland
• JISC Phase 2 adds interoperability via
  exchanging data also with an external body, e.g.
• A trades union
• RNIB
• UCAS

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Support for lifelong learning

• eGovernment developing via the education system
  and the health service
• Educational goal of interoperable PDP projects
  lifelong learning
• Shift of emphasis from sector-administered
  progress files to individually-owned on-going
  PDRs PLUS presentational eportfolios such as a
  UCAS application

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Project Specifying an e-Portfolio

• Partners
• University of Leeds CETIS
• University of Nottingham (leading) FE City of
  Nottingham Passport
• University of Paisley FE
• UCAS Jill Johnson, Judith Doughty, Pip Horner,
  Steve Porter Alan Paull,
  Hamish West

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Project objectives

• Propose UCAS form extension (new flexible
  framework for HE admissions widening
  participation) via case studies England
  Scotland
• Pilot transfer of data FE?HE, joining up personal
  development planning records
• Transfer enhanced learner information from UCAS
  into MLEs in three HEIs
• Develop a technical specification for an HE
  admissions process using IMS LIP (Learner
  Information Packaging)

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UCAS goals

• Ensuring 100 electronic processes for enhanced
  admissions from 2006 conform to interoperability
  specifications
• Clarifying how PDP processes will relate to
  application data and its uses in FE and HE
• Collaborating re. specific focus in each HEI
  e.g. Nottingham review of personal statement
  in one recruiting and one selecting discipline

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Enhanced UCAS form

• For fair admissions under widening participation
  evidence of aptitude and potential as well as
  prior achievement
• Implications for approaches to learning and
  teaching in FE and HE (employability)
• Enhancing transition and retention, providing
  data for transfer into HE support systems

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E-enhanced learner information for admissions

• Structure, prompts?
• Customisation?
• Evolving documents?
• Attachments?
• Transformations?