Widening participation Progress Files and ePortfolios

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Widening participation Progress Files and
ePortfolios

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

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Univ of Nottingham ePARs

• Review meetings/1-1 tutorials
• Personal webspace
• Personal Evidence Database evidencing skills
  development
• CV
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/padshe/ePARs/Demonstrations.h
  tm

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An ePARs tool for transition and retention

• The New Entrant Profile

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Making the Links City of Nottingham Passport
ePARswww.cityofnottinghampassport.com

• 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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Nottingham JISC project

• Title Specifying an e-Portfolio -- enhanced
  learner information for flexible admissions and
  transitions into higher education
• Nottingham, Leeds, Paisley, UCAS
• Changing UCAS application form
• Project website www.nottingham.ac.uk/e-portfolio

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WP issues for HE admissions

• Role of formal qualifications
• Demonstrating aptitude and potential as well as
  prior achievement
• Evidencing skills
• UCAS personal statement
• UCAS reference

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Enhanced application processes -- suggestions

• Applicant able to replace the generic personal
  statement with a statement for each course?
• Range of appropriate content for personal
  statements and references indicated via links
  with course entry profiles?
• Access students evolving references?
• Transformations admissions staff prioritise
  information as they wish?

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UCAS application as a presentational ePortfolio

• ePARs in HE ? ePortfolios in HE
  institution-driven ? learner-driven,
  within the context of an ongoing lifelong
  learning record
• UCAS application as ePortfolio Drawing upon
  pre-HE PDP for a presentational purpose
• E.g. Hot links from personal statement to dated
  evidence in pre-HE PDP?

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Enhanced applications processes and PDP

• For fair admissions under widening participation
  evidence of aptitude and potential as well as
  prior achievement
• Enhancing transition and retention, providing
  data for transfer into HE support systems ?
  continuity
• Employability
• Implications of e-Portfolios for more
  student-centred approaches to learning and
  teaching in FE and HE