Current work

• PADHSE Project Director Angela Smallwood is one of three Directors of the University of Nottingham's new national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the Centre for Integrative Learning (www.nottingham.ac.uk/integrativelearning). This has been awarded HEFCE funding of £4.2 million, to run until 2010. The Centre will create a distinctive model of student-centred, holistic learning for the 21st century, harnessing the best of HE pedagogy nationally as well as collaborating with international scholars. It will provide a focus for leading UK ePortfolio development. Other Project Directors are Professor Martin Binks of the Business School and Dr Alan Booth of the Department of History. (See Briefing Powerpoint.)
  


• The University of Nottingham is leading one of five JISC-funded e-Framework reference model projects, ePortfolio for Lifelong Learning.


• The University of Nottingham is lead institution in a JISC Distributed eLearning Regional Pilot project, RIPPLL: Regional Interoperability Project on Progression for Lifelong Learning (www.nottingham.ac.uk/rippll). Project partners are Nottingham Trent University, the City of Nottingham Education Department, Ufi/learndirect and the Greater Nottingham 14-19 Strategy Group, as well as local employers. The project will support progression to HE for widening participation by making all major existing electronic systems in use in the Nottingham area for study-based Progress Files interoperable, using the UKLeaP interoperability standard. A bank of use cases will be developed covering a wide range of types of learner and at least five transition routes between partners. The project runs from January 2005 to March 2006. For further details, contact Sandra Kingston or Angela Smallwood.
  


• Angela Smallwood led a JISC-funded project from 2003-2005, Specifying an e-Portfolio: Enhanced Learner Information for Flexible Admissions and Transitions into Higher Education (www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio). This will pilot the flow of enhanced learner information through admissions processes to support the development of students as lifelong learners. This project is part of the JISC Managed Learning Environments (MLEs) for Lifelong Learning: Phase 2 programme www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=mle_lifelonglearning_info
  


• ePARs: The University of Nottingham's electronic Personal and Academic Records
  
  
• ePARs and Widening Participation at the University of Nottingham (including the New Entrant Profile)
  
  
• PADSHE Skills Interface project, a HEFCE TQEF National Teaching Fellowship (2000) project
  www.ncteam.ac.uk/ntfs/2000/descriptions/index.htm#smallwood
  
  
• Angela Smallwood is a member of the Core Advisory Group for the Centre for Recording Achievement JISC project, Supporting the Development of Learner Profiles across HE and FE
  www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_cra&src=alpha