FEHE: joining up phases of PDP via admissions processes

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FE?HE joining up phases of PDP via admissions
processes

• Angela Smallwood, PADSHE Director for ePortfolio
  Development
• Univ Nottingham CETL for Integrative Learning
• JISC work nottingham.ac.uk/e-portfolio

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Specifying an e-Portfolio

• Phase 2 of the MLEs for Lifelong Learning
  programme testing interoperability
  specification (UK LeaP) via data exchange with
  external body UCAS
• Proposing enhanced learner information for
  flexible transitions and admissions into higher
  education (Schwartz report, September 2004)
• aptitude and potential (WP)
• differentiation for high achievers

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Centrality of use cases

• Bring together pedagogy with technology for full
  understanding of data transfer FE-HE
• Investigate and describe needs of all users for
  specific subsets and movements of data
• Help technicians, policy makers and practitioners
  understand problems and possibilities
• Build consensus around shared models

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

• CNP
• Personal statement
• CV
• ILP
• NOCN certificate
• My skills

• ePARs
• New Entrant Profile
• CV
• Review meetings
• Personal web space
• Personal Evidence Database

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PDP process vs. product (again!)

• Influence of the old UCAS form on the culture of
  16-19 education
• UCAS application as a focus for PDP pre-HE
  motivator
• UCAS technology as a lever for cross-sector IT
  development
• UCAS application as a presentational eportfolio

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Wider potential of moving learners information

• Passport ? ePARs
• Passport ? UCAS ? HEI
• Admissions system
• MIS
• eProgress File/ePARs/ePortfolio
• Role of the UCAS presentation in the ongoing
  developmental process?

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Review of the personal statement for HE admissions

• Potentially a baseline statement for PDP in HE
  (see New Entrant Profile above)
• Old UCAS p.s. criticised by candidates as
  unhelpfully generic and bland
• Blank text box as part of the test for
  selecting depts little help for WP students
• Admissions tutors concerned about coaching and
  authenticity

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Structure for stakeholders?
Course entry profile provides course specific
criteria as prompts
Prompts used by candidate customising personal
statement to provide most useful information
Same criteria used by admissions tutor to produce
scored profile
Enabling computer-generated feedback
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Learner-centred personal statement

• Hyperlinks from text of personal statement to
  date-stamped items in PDP archive?
• reflective commentary?
• Optionally available to admissions staff for
  crucial borderline candidates
• Student escape-route from the constraint and
  prescription of the old paper form(ulation) into
  web space
• Able to show suitability for HE via wider range
  of evidence and choice of media

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Pedagogical alignments of different technologies

• UCAS and web technology impact on 16-19
  practice, including PDP?
• Implications for learning and teaching, support
  and guidance, in HE?
• Compare interoperability predicated on
  institutional provision, with
• Web-services approach -- learner-centredness?