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14 December 2010
STEEL the Showcase event: ePPSME presented
Earlier in the year we submitted the ePPSME project as a case study to a Higher Education Academy funded project led by Leeds Metropolitan University. HEA project page is at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/detail/learningandtechnology/seminar_series/STEEL and the project details/blog etc are at: http://steelproject.wordpress.com/
The case study has been included in a booklet: Technology Enhanced Employabilty and Employee Learning: a staff guide. Copies of the guide can be obtained from the STEEL project team at Leeds Met. A pdf version is available from: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/alt/index_publications.htm
We were also asked to present our ePPSME project at a dissemination event in Leeds on Thursday 9th December 2010. Despite the arctic weather conditions we got there in one piece and gave a brief overview of the work we've done and then answered questions in two round table discussions. A copy of our presentation can be viewed from the file here.
Leeds Met are setting up a wiki to continue to collect and collate evidence of practice. We'll add a link to the wiki when its available.
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Video interview with Alison and Emma about the ePPSME project
At the Festival of Assemblies in Oxford on 20th October (see earlier post) we were videoed and asked to explain a bit about the ePPSME project. The video can either be seen on the JISC/SSBR site for the event: http://assemblies.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/phase-3-lll-wfd-assemblies/
or via a link from the project home page: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/eppsme (our bit starts 36 secs into the file).
Posted by Alison Felce at 15:38
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05 December 2010
1st Dec 2010 - Learner support web-folio
Work to develop the Learner support web-folio is almost complete. This will be available as a web-site, via a public URL, and is intended to help learners who are thinking about enrolling for one of our ePPSME units, or who are studying on one.
We're just putting the finishing touches to the web-folio before we make it live but will post the URL in this blog as soon as it's available.
Posted by Alison Felce at 15:18
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23rd - 26th November 2010 - JISC e-learning conference - Have-a-go sessions
We put forward our narrated demonstration web-folio for the Have-a-Go sessions as part of the JISC e-learning conference. We had some interesting questions and feedback - as well as notification that it doesn't seem to work on Internet Explorer, but is fine on other platforms.
Information and downloads from the conference are available from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elpconference10
The video can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/eppsme-have-a-go
If you have any questions or feedback please contact Alison at: a.e.felce@wlv.ac.uk
Posted by Alison Felce at 15:14
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30th Sept 2010 - Interim Progress Report
The interim progress report was submitted to JISC for the end of September deadline. The summary given in the report states:
The primary work on the project is complete; it is on budget and has met all key programme dates. The third of the three retreats was held in June 2010 and the processes and guidelines have been finalised. Three pilot units have been completed and the learning from each unit has informed the research for and development of the subsequent pilot units. A fourth pilot is due to complete in early December 2010, feedback and evaluation from this will be included in the final report. Evaluation interviews with those involved in the project, employers, learners and University staff have been completed during August and September. Findings from the project have been disseminated at a number of conferences and JISC events and two papers have been submitted to peer reviewed publications.
The project team and seven partners submitted a successful bid for a Benefits Realisation Project to develop an e-portfolio pedagogies community of practice (ePCoP) which will run until end March 2011.
Posted by Alison Felce at 15:09
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04 December 2010
20th Oct 2010 - Festival of Assemblies - Oxford
Emma and Alison led a workshop on the ePCoP project and shared Mary's learning journey - a Muvizu presentation based on the presentation at the UALL conference in July. The file is currently being revised but a link to it will be posted on the blog when it is available.
There was a "trade fair" at the event and the draft narrated demo web folio for the ePPSME model was presented. It was quite noisy at the event so people couldn't hear the narration, even with the earphones we supplied - something to think about for future events.
The video can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/eppsme-have-a-go
If you have any feedback we'd love to hear it. You can send it to: a.e.felce@wlv.ac.uk
General information from the event can be seen on the JISC/SSBR website at: http://assemblies.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/phase-3-lll-wfd-assemblies/
Posted by Alison Felce at 17:54
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7th Oct 2010 - ePCoP Project Meeting 2
Held at Wolverhampton, topics discussed included:
# Consultants report
# Project flyer
# Events and dissemination
# On-line discussions: dates and PBWiki conversations
# Update on project partners
# Involvement of non-funded partners
There has been a lot of interest in the project and a number of offers to host / lead the asynchronous discussions to be held in Cloudworks in the Spring. Topics and dates will be confirmed later in the year.
Posted by Alison Felce at 17:45
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Sept 2010 - ePPSME model used in Foundation Degree
The project team has worked with a colleague in the School of Technology at the University to develop the ePPSME 5-credit units as part of a Foundation Degree for work-based learners. The course has also been accredited by a professional body.
Learners study four 5-credit units consecutively to achieve a 20 credit module. They then register for the foundation degree and study the remaining modules on a block release basis where the e-portfolio is used to support learners, for group and individual activities, for contact with tutors and for personal reflections between their face-to-face sessions.
The aim is for the ePPSME units to act as introductory units to HE to encourage practice-based learners to continue to complete the full course.
Initial feedback is very positive and learners are submitting some very high quality work.
Posted by Alison Felce at 17:40
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7-9th Sept 2010 - Alt-C Presentation
Emma and Rachel gave a presentation on the project at the Alt-C conference in September.
The project developments and findings have been presented at more conferences than was originally intended. We we fortunate in that every abstract we submitted was accepted. This meant a lot of extra work in putting the presentations together, as well as the time to attend the conferences, but was worthwhile to get the project known about within relevant communities.
Posted by Alison Felce at 17:34
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3rd Sept 2010 - ePCoP Project Meeting
The first meeting of the project team was held at University of Wolverhampton. Topics covered included:
# Project overview and deadlines
# Project conditions
# Communication and publicity
# Consultancy contract
# Meeting schedule
Sarah Chesney is working as a Project Officer for ePCoP. She used to work at the University of Cumbria and is an experienced e-portfolio user as well as being well-known in the e-portfolio community.
Posted by Alison Felce at 17:30
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