myWORLD Open Source ePortfolio

Lifelong Learning for all: e-learning from concept to practice conference

Lifelong Learning for all: e-learning from concept to practice conference will explore the role of distributed e-learning through three main themes:

• Facilitating progression
  
• Supporting collaborative teaching and sharing of resources across institutions
  
• Supporting the independent lifelong learner

e-Skills Passport and ITQ

Just spent an entertaining couple of hours foraging around work-based qualifications in ICT. I have ended up with an e-Skills passport (No. 16420). This investigation arose from a discussion with myWORLD Project Partners Sasha East and Joe Rosa at Blackbird Leys Community IT Centre yesterday. This post pulls together the links for NVQs and other competency frameworks for ICT learning and development in the UK. focussing on eSkills, the e-Skills Passport and the IT Qualification (ITQ).

JISC/SURF e-Portfolio Experts Group

This is a brief report from the JISC/SURF e-Portfolio Experts Group meeting at the University of Amsterdam 16 and 17 February 2006. The report is organised around four key themes that emerged: valuing the learner, pedagogical mediation, institutions, and research. The logic of the report moves from the learner, through learning and teaching processes to the institutions within which much (but not all) learning takes place. The report concludes with a view of the research agenda that might be useful to the JISC and SURF.

Note, while I use the pronoun “we” throughout, this is a an individual account of the proceedings, which will be circulated to the whole group but, as at this version, there is not necessarily a consensus. As ever the good points are probably those closest to a consensus while the points of contention and misunderstandings will most likely arise from my own views.
A summary follows. A 13 page draft paper is here (140K Word Doc)

Steering Group Meeting 4

The final Steering Group meeting of the myWORLD and Petal2 projects was held at Oxford Brookes University on 1 February. Below the cut I will discuss the key points of the meeting. Here just let me say thank you to all the people who have participated in these projects. There is still a lot of work to do over these next two months to consolidate what we have learned about ePortfolios and the Open Source Portfolio (OSP) application but there is no doubt that the whole UK eportfolio community has gained a great deal from all your hard work.