• NEW College (Bromsgrove & Redditch) have developed their own comprehensive ILP which looks good (they demonstrated it at the LLUK meeting Worcester) contact is:

Phil Beale

Phone: 01527 572885

Email: pbeale@ne-worcs.ac.uk

• A blog post by our Work based learning advisor Theresa Welch impacts upon this FE remit of recording acheivement/assessment of learner acheivements very closely:

http://wblwestmids.blogspot.com/2007/11/use-of-e-portfolios-in-assessment.html

 

Theresa refers to section 4 of this publication http://www.efutures.org/docs/guide.pdf  that covers assessment using eportfolios.

 

 

• I read about the E.W.E  project on the JISC website http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning_capital/el_xinstit2/ewe.aspx which just started in October 2007 but this will not be completed for 2 years.  Peter  Dickson, Loughborough College is leading the project.

• A survey conducted by CRA in 2006 entitled Personalised learning plans in Lifelong Learning Networks:

  • Personalised learning plans in Lifelong Learning Networks. Report to HEFCE by the Centre for Recording Achievement.

    HEFCE funds a number of Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs) across the country, made up of higher and further education institutions and other regional partners. The networks' main aim is to improve the coherence, clarity and certainty of progression opportunities for vocational learners into and through higher education. Personalised learning plans (or individualised learning plans as they were originally termed) were seen as a key way for networks to focus on the needs of the learner. This report presents the outcomes of a study designed to help LLNs to develop good practice in personalised learning plans. It identifies current practice in the use of such plans in vocational areas aimed at supporting effective learning and progression. It also makes recommendations to HEFCE and to individual LLNs. (Source: HEFCE Admin Mailing List, 29^th May 2007). For further details and access to the report see:

The report is available at http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2007/rd11_07/

 

 

 

 

• These two links discuss the use of a JISC funded ILP tool at Loughborough. College who seem to be leading the way under the JISC Lifelong learning funding programme. This cross sector progression was very successful by transferring records between FE and HE. The system is now available across the whole of Leicestershire, linking schools to FE, then FE to HE.   Full details and contacts here :

 

 

 http://www.elearning.ac.uk/mle/cases/lough_case 

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_edistributed/pdp4life.aspx#downloads

 

The contact at Loughborough fiona.henry@loucoll.ac.uk

 

 

• Chesterfield College have embarked upon a pilot electronic ILP using moodle. Read their case study online here:

http://www.ittpilotresources.org.uk/ILP/casestudies/ilpcasechesterfield.html

 

 

• Northampton College have developed and eILP method in their Moodle 

http://moodle.northamptoncollege.ac.uk/

 

•  ULCC have now fully developed a Moodle plugin (Nov 2007) which can be tailored to suit any College needs for ILP.  Find it here. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=83672.     It has been tested to work with Moodle versions 1.8 and 1.9. 
  • Contact James Ballard

Learning Technologist

 

University of London Computer Centre

 

 

 

| 20 Guilford Street | London WC1N 1DZ |

 

| 020 7692 1308 | http://moodle.ulcc.ac.uk |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULCC will link this ILP to you regsitry system to create a fully integrated MLE. They also provide Moodle support contracts.

 

 

• John Ruskin SFC developed their own tutorial system that was incorporated within Moodle - the developer left though and I'm not sure where they are with it currently. This seems to be a subject much in demand so we plan to have it as a workshop at London's next Moodle Moot at University College London some time next term."

 

• The most promising Moodle module looks like the Portfolio to me. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=947 (log in as a guest to browse around) .  Access the SPDC Moodle module here       http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=686

 

 

 

 

• Increasingly eportfolio tools are being utilised to aid the progrresion from FE to HE and all that this entials.  This Scottish project is piloting such a scheme:

 

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_sfc/sfc_isle.aspx 

 

 

What some Colleges are doing>

 

Martin Randerson

Worcester College of Technology (MRanderson@STAFF.WORTECH.AC.UK):

 

We're in the middle of trialling an e-tutorial/reporting system this

year which we have built with the intention of making it live on a

voluntary basis for tutors in September.

 

It's a web application which we are hosting inside our SharePoint

install although it could be extracted to run standalone if necessary.

It runs from data within our MIS system (EBS) along with Moodle

information and our Staff and Student's network information in Active

Directory. It presents a series of sections for staff and students to

use including induction checklists, requests for help and special areas

of need, arrival qualifications, goal setting and review and others as

well as the tutorial interviews themselves.

 

We've got a series of other features that have been added over the last

year which are being tested which include unit and assignment scores

being tracked to calculate UCAS points or GCSE equivalence values and a

fairly ambitious final grade prediction system based on arrival

qualifications which is subject to tweaking and latest calculations

before September.

 

We're working on it all the time to make it as user friendly as possible

and it's one of those projects which seem to be morphing into a

product/service which is a long way removed from what was originally

planned but its going well I think.

 

We've got our Moodle integrated with SharePoint as well and they all

transparently auth with Active Directory to allow our students to have

the best service we can offer without having to crow bar things into

Moodle if it isn't the best too for the job.

 

Our aim is for students to have the best of all the facilities Moodle,

SharePoint, the e-tutorial system and any other range of applications

can provide without them needing to know the specifics of what is

running under the hood. It's a bit of a Holy Grail but it's a target to

aim for.

 

I'd be happy for people to have a look at our ideas and would really

welcome feedback on the e-tutorial system if anyone is interested.

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Trethewey  PeterT@BROMLEY.AC.UK

 

We are ambitiously writing what we call an e-tracking system which will

be "fed" by our student data system and updated by course tutors. It

will be available over the web and will include many things including

ILP.

 

When completed their will be a "shell" available to other institutions

for customisation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geoff Rebbeck staff-glr@THANET.AC.UK

 

We have used student wikis in Moodle, pasting blank Word templates into

each one that is then filled in as the course progresses. Supplementary

reviews and any other special reporting is accommodated through sub

wikis off the initial one. In time I suspect this will be superseded but

for now it is free and getting tutors used to the idea of e-ILPs. We

have grouped them by Section not course and added all the teachers, LSWs

and Admin Assts in as well from the Section to form small communities,

so each student has one ILP and all their tutors can access it, as can

the student. Piloting about 100 this year and so far is working well.