exploring the issues of person centric portfolios beyond the institution and across multiple...

Exploring the issues of person centric portfolios beyond the institution and across multiple institutions and frameworks.

David Sowden, The University of Hull

Tom Holland, MyKnowledgeMap Ltd

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Research background

• The University set out to:

– explore the issues and concepts behind developing a toolset to integrate and support personalised portfolios

– investigate the capacity to link and interact with professionally or personally developed competency frameworks


Research approach

• Explore the direct and indirect user interactions based on user needs

• Identify the technologies, standards and data-types involved in each interaction

• Define the scope for a suitable technology solution - an e-portfolio type platform that could cope with a variety of interaction processes

• Identify approaches to allow sharing of media rich “assets” between users

• Define an approach that could, where appropriate, adopt the use of recognised standards and cloud technology to offer full interoperability


Research results

• To be successful, the results indicated that:– a “person-centric” environment was required– tools must support an individual’s personal acquisition

and sharing of knowledge and media rich assets– tools must allow acquisition of assets throughout a

user’s lifetime– the user should have full control of securely sharing

and distributing their own personal assets– any developed tools must integrate with and improve

on existing systems for reporting, assessment and collaboration

– any developed tools must remove the traditional ties to institutional, employer-owned or regulatory body based repositories and e-portfolio tools and systems

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Meet Sally...

...let’s take a look at her learning journey

Photo: Old Woman Portrait by Michael Melrose - CC BY 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikemelrose_/3092749651/


Sally’s life-long learning journey

Extended from Susie’s Journey - http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/supporting-learners/susies-journey

Primaryschool

Secondaryschool

College

Part-timejob

University

Workexperience

Coachingfootball

First-aidcourse

Graduateprogram

Work Professionalmembership

OngoingCPD

Professionalqualification

Nightclasses

Retirement

Collegecourse

Documentingmemories

Part-timejob

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/supporting-learners/susies-journey


Evidence can be captured at all points...

QualificationsExperience

s& skills

Experiences

& skillsBlog posts Certificate

Portfolio &certificate

SkillsSkills &

certificateExperiences

& skills

Skills &experiences

Experiences

& quals

Experiences

& degree

Experiences,

skills & HRrecords

Experiences,

skills & HRrecords

Experiences, skills &

professionalportfolio

CPD records ExperiencesExperience

s

Primaryschool

Secondaryschool

College

Part-timejob

University

Workexperience

Coachingfootball

First-aidcourse

Graduateprogram


OngoingCPD


Nightclasses

Retirement

Collegecourse

Documentingmemories

Part-timejob


...but in a range of formats, systems and social media sitesQualifications

Experiences

& skills

Experiences

& skillsBlog posts Certificate

Portfolio &certificate

SkillsSkills &

certificateExperiences

& skills

Skills &experiences

Experiences

& quals

Experiences

& degree

Experiences,

skills & HRrecords

Experiences,

skills & HRrecords

Experiences, skills &

professionalportfolio

CPD records ExperiencesExperience

s

Primaryschool

Secondaryschool

College

Part-timejob

University

Workexperience

Coachingfootball

First-aidcourse

Graduateprogram


OngoingCPD


Nightclasses

Retirement

Collegecourse

Documentingmemories

Part-timejob

School MIS / paper

CV CV Wordpress PDFProfessional

institute system

Twitter / Evernot

e

Evernote / College e-portfolio

CV

Paper records

MoodleBlackboa

rd / e-portfolio

HR systems /

CV

HR systems / corporate

LMS

Professional institute system

Professional institute portfolio

Letters / blogs / photos

Scrapbooks / blog posts


Conclusions

“By taking personal ownership of all of their own assets, reflections and contributions, and understanding how these link to acquisition of competencies, either professional or personal, it assists the individual in career decisions and allows them to focus their own professional development through collaboration and sharing of assets.”

•In the process the individual is:– Better able to recognise opportunity– More aware of the trends and directions in the

workplace and society– Becomes increasingly effective in the workplace– Able to help, influence and lead others– Confident of their future employability


...but this can only work if the individual has access to their assets throughout their whole learning journey

Traditional e-portfolio model New e-portfolio model

Institutionally owned Personally owned

Very powerful but spanning only a small percentage of the overall learning journey

Cut down and to-the-point functionality but spanning the entire life-long journey

Often complex, with a steep learning curve - especially for casual users

Simple, quick and easy to use - designed for casual / infrequent use

Often a new tool that has to be learntIncorporates existing systems and familiar

tools

Supports export of data but often in “machine readable” formats only

Easily transferable data with user controlled exposure of evidence in readable

formats

Often unclear who “owns” the data within the institutional system

Clear terms of ownership - of the application, the data and the assets


A new e-portfolio model - personal asset repositories

Professional skills

passports & CPD systems

Personal asset repository

Sally’s Journey

School MIS systems

VLEs & LMSs Files & blogs HR systems Twitter, Flickr & social content

APIs / data import/exp

ort

Institutionally owned

asset repository instance Asset

repository “dock”

functionality

Direct integration

Custom plugin

Dropbox / Google Drive /iCloud

Asset sync functions

Direct integration APIs


MyShowcase

• Version 0.9:– JISC funded– Sakai tool developed to blend institutional evidence with

social content in a learner-owned space

• Version 1.0:– JISC, University of Hull & MyKnowledgeMap funded– Java-based application removed from Sakai environment

and delivered as stand-alone or through a Moodle plugin– Used in numerous trials and pilots, most recently

University of Hull School of Engineering as well as National Science Learning Centres


ReallyManaging MyShowcase

• Now part of the ReallyManaging product family from MyKnowledgeMap Ltd.

• Integrated within the ReallyManaging Assessment product delivering “Progress File” functionality - tracking a learner’s achievements, assessment results and reflective evidence assetsDetachable as a standalone personal asset repository (planned functionality)

Personal asset repository

Dropbox / Google Drive / iCloud

Asset repository

“dock” functionality

PLA

NN

ED

ReallyManaging Assessment with MyShowcase extensions available Sep 2012 - currently in use by the University of Leeds School of Medicine.


Get involved

• Does this approach fit with your way of thinking?

• Are you looking for innovative ways to support your learners with gathering evidence as part of a life-long journey?

• Do you see assessment as an integral part of the learning cycle - used for gathering evidence and proving competence, not just testing knowledge?

• Yes? We’d love to hear from you!MyKnowledgeMap’s special interest group focussing on evidence based assessment and progress-file tracking would like to hear your input, shaping the future direction of the MyShowcase product

Dave WallerProduct & Design [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


Questions


ReallyManaging Assessment

• A comprehensive assessment product supporting the full learning cycle

• Flexible and easy to use authoring tools for creation of assessments, exercises, quizzes and templated forms

• Deployment to both web and mobile (offline capability included) for student engagement

• Intuitive tools for response review and feedback

• In-built MyShowcase functionality for:

– Tracking student progress

– Mapping evidence to competencies and learning outcomes

– Reflective blogging, image and multi-media capture

– A personal space where all evidence is “private” by default and unlocked for review by the student

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