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Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
ISLE
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
Educational Content SIG
Friday March 17, 2006
Alyson Barrie, Gerard Graham
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
A National project
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
What benefits can we expect?
• Common practice across educational sectors built upon a shared concept of Personal Development Planning
• Improved progression, retention and achievement rates
• More effective learners
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
Key Project areas
PDP ‘a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning and/or achievement and to plan for their personal education and career development’ (Dearing)
ePortfolio ‘an electronic tool to support PDP, including an electronic archive, opportunities for diagnostic testing & interactive learning, feedback & support, and facilities to manipulate & present outputs, such as CV’ (ISLE definition)
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
Purpose of PDP
“The primary objective of PDP is to improve the capacity of individuals to understand what and how they are learning, and to review, plan and take responsibility for their own learning, helping students:
– Become more effective, independent and confident self-directed learners
– Understand how they are learning and relate their learning to a wider context
– Improve their general skills for study and career management– Articulate their personal goals and evaluate progress towards
their achievement– Encourage a positive attitude to learning throughout life
National Guidelines for HE Progress Files
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
PDP Process
• Three learner activities are commonly identified:– Planning– Recording– Reflection
• ISLE Integrative Pedagogical Framework derived from – Effective Learning Framework (ELF)– SQA PDP
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
ISLE Integrative Pedagogical Framework
• goal setting and “action” planning• doing (learning through the experience of doing
with greater awareness) • recording (thoughts, ideas, experiences,
evidence of learning….) • reviewing (reflections on what has happened,
making sense of it all), and • evaluating (making judgements about self and
own work and determining what needs to be done to develop/improve/move on)
• Iterative – not repetitive!
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
Effective Learning Framework – Core Concept
Personal Experience
How do I learn?
Academic Curriculum
How does my course help my employability?
Career Skills
What are my career skills?
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
Academic
CareerPersonal
Effective Learning Framework – Core Concept
Personal
Academic
Career
Self Audit
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SQA – 7 Steps to PDP
1. Where am I now?
2. Where am I going next?
3. Self Appraisal & SWOT
4. Setting personal objectives
5. Action Planning
6. Implementing an action plan
7. Review & Evaluation
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
Learner’s Personal ePortfolio
(Personal Web Space)
Activity ePortfolio
ISLE Concept Model of ePortfolio supported PDP
ePortfolios can include both generic templates for common activities - such as a skills self-audit, a SWOT, or the setting of learning goals - students will complete and save to their ePortfolio.
How to use an ePortfolio
Study Skills Guides
Subject specific learning
resources
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Skills audit test with
automated feedback
Career planning tool (e.g. Career Directions)
Other self-evaluation
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Presentational ePortfolios
Peer to Peer learning
e.g. group project or personal interest
Presenting material to a
tutor
e.g. activity of ePortfolio task that could be assessed
Application to education or employment
e.g. creating a CV or showreel
Exchange
Learner's ePortfolio Data - both their main activity ePortfolio
and presentational ePortfolios
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
Matrix themes
• Changes in support models • Comparative study of FE/HE PDP experiences • ePortfolio systems • PDP across the curriculum • Resources to support PDP and Diagnostic
Testing • Students in transition • Support for learning • Transferring student data
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
ePortfolio systems featured in the project
• BlackBoard– Unstructured data representation– Content Publishing system
• PebblePAD– Structured data representation– “Very nice to drive”
• OSP– Structured data representation– Goal to be interoperable
• Enquirer• SELF
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
BlackBoard Content System
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
BlackBoard ePortfolio
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
OSP Repository
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
OSP Portfolio
Individualised Support for Learning through ePortfolios
For further information
• Project Website– http://isle.paisley.ac.uk
• Gerard Graham– [email protected]
• Alyson Barrie– [email protected]