Higher Education Learning Portfolio for Placements

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Higher Education Learning Portfolio for Placements

• HELPP
• JISC Project
• Rose Papworth
• Charles Papworth
• Billy Smithers

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Project rationale

• JISC e-learning capital programme
• HE in FE strand
• FD work placements
• Facilitate 3-way conversation between learner,
  employer and tutor
• Developing personal reflection via blogs and
  comments (PDP)?
• social constructivist perspective
• Using an e-portfolio to facilitate widening
  participation via personalisation

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Elgg

• Environment that allows
• Individual and community blogs with comments
• Flexible e-portfolio space
• Access controls
• An online work placement contract developed with
  HEA funding

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So far

• One-year HEA mini-project
• 2006/2007 used with FD Software Design and
  Development cohort
• Students like blogs
• Can be difficult to ensure employer engagement
• Students and employers like sharing documents via
  e-portfolio space
• Online placement details easier to access

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the next two years

• A download facility to be developed
• Want to evaluate use with work placements in art,
  media and performance subjects
• Period 2007/2008
• Results of evaluation March 09

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Technical Requirements

• Lifelong learners can download documents to
  transportable media
• Future interoperability
• More information needed!
• E.g. UK Leap

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Further info

• HEA page
• http//www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/HEinFE/HullCollege_
  MP.htm
• JISC page
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programm
  e_elearning_capital/el_heinfe/helpp.aspx
• JISC Project web site
• http//helpp.hull-college.ac.uk/