Liverpool JMU

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Liverpool JMU

• School of the Built Environment
• PDP Experience
• 2000-2005

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The SOBE Experience
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SOBE Experience

• School implementation
• staff training and involvement
• student registrations
• assessment
• feedback
• operational issues
• applications
• future

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School implementation

• School policy was to incorporate RAPID into each
  programme before end 2001/02
• Target - one module at each level within each
  programme
• Module focus - RAPID element 15 total module
  mark

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Staff Training and Involvement

• TL Group
• TL Awayday
• all SOBE staff attended demonstrations
• Initial presentations by LTC
• Module leaders now present package

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Academic Year 2001-2005 c.800 student
registrations per academic year

• HNC/HND Programmes
• Building Surveying
• Building Technology
• Housing
• Civil Engineering
• Urban Planning

• Undergraduate Programmes
• Building Surveying
• Civil Engineering
• Construction Management
• Housing
• Planning
• Quantity Surveying
• Real Estate Management

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Assessment

• Within module
• Formal
• 500 word report
• Marked as D,P,M or Fail
• Worth 15 of module assessment
• Informal
• Used as 'aide memoire' to assist in preparation
  of learning journal

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Feedback

• positive experience- staff and students
• ease of use
• facilitates production of report and learning
  journal
• links to professional bodies
• enhanced awareness of professional body
  requirements
• contextualisation of key skill development
• ability to progress at own rate
• enhanced evidence linkages
• staff generally convinced of benefits

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Operational issues

• initial software installation
• remote access
• external P/T students
• quality of reports
• some excellent
• some just completed package
• guidance on reflection
• good on future planning
• evidence issues

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Initial application

• All skills related to CIOB PDP, RICS APC etc.
• Skills directly relevant to students
• Skills inherent taught programmes

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Further application

• Problem - BTEC key skills
• part time students
• different competence levels
• diverse experience of students
• management key skills

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Customisation in the School-Housing programmes

• adapted version of RAPID
• key skills element
• outcome driven
• student specifies processes
• student benefits
• inter active
• remote access
• framework
• clarity for staff and students
• supports current portfolio

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Conclusions-School based

• project launch successful
• project aims and objectives on target
• construction based programmes appropriate
• broader application strong potential

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Future

• register all SOBE students
• make linkages
• progress file
• industrial placement reports
• support alternative modes of delivery
• work based learning
• web based learning
• integrate key skill portfolio
• customise and extend to other schools

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RAPID in the Wider University Context

• RAPID was initially chosen as the PDP Tool for
  use across the University
• Problems
• Scaleability
• Unsupportable by CIS
• Timescale for customising
• University wants OSS to develop system that will
  speak to exisitng system

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PDP

• Have to have system available for student use by
  September 2005
• Development of paper based exercise based on PACE
  and SPEED key skills section(RAPID)
• Uploadable in WORD to Virtual Learning
  Environment (Blackboard)

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PDP

• Each programme has its own Blackboard site for
  PDP
• Use either examined or not, depends on the School

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Advantages of this approach

• Staff and students will not have to learn
  different electronic versions
• We know that Blackboard works and that students
  like it!
• Quick and easy to develop
• Ultimately, OSS will develop their own version
  and it will take data from the main database,
  which will ease the task for students
• OSS can produce the transcript which is part of
  the PDP requirement