This page is dedicated to the movement towards implementing an eportfolio tool for PDP.

1) The Eppi centre were commissioned to synthesise 25 research papers on the subject of PDP to ascertain effetiveness with student engagment of the personal development planning process.  The results were broadly postitive on having a positive imapct on student learning when engaged with the PDP process.  Read the reports here:

http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=309   & a further sumamry here http://bridgescetl.beds.ac.uk/curriculum/pdp-guides-18

Worcester University, Demontfort and Leeds have all conducted similar trials.

http://www.worc.ac.uk/LTMain/NQFProject/Website/conference/whyresearchPDP.ppt 

2) Karen Pinney from the Birmingham College of food & Tourism is implementing a pilot using Blackboard epotfoli tool..  More detials to follow

3) easimap.

The HEA Engineering Subject centre in conjuntion with JISC are devleoping an electronic tool to link the assessment of learing outcomes with students' PDP, records/e-portfolios..  Detials here:

http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/easimap.asp

4) A report on progress files.

http://alh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/6/2/160.pdf