RIPPLL: Regional Interoperability Project on Progression
for Lifelong Learning

Events

'ePortfolios: Mapping the Future' event, 8 May 2006

This event was held at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham in collaboration with the JISC RSC East Midlands, NILTA and the CETIS Lifelong Learning Special Interest Group. The day aimed to inform senior staff in FE about the issues and questions surrounding ePortfolio which their institutions need to consider (see Event Flyer).

(Download Programme for the day). Materials from the day are given below: there is also a Blog for continuing discussion of themes and questions. Please log in and contribute!

Programme

Welcome and overview: Dr Angela Smallwood, University of Nottingham

Theme 1: Contexts and regional developments

ePortfolio development, policy and practice in national and international contexts: Peter Rees Jones, CETIS, DfES Working Group on ePortfolios [presentation]

Regional practice:

• Nottingham Passportfolio: Phil Harley, 14-19 Strategy Manager [presentation]
• Accessibility and the ACCLIP standard: Fiona Henry, Loughborough College [presentation: a guest login for those wishing to view the system can be obtained by contacting Fiona Henry]

Theme 2: identifying ePortfolio services for the future

Introductory plenaries:

• ePortfolios and web services: Clive Church, CETIS and Edexcel [presentation]
• Scenario building: Peter Rees Jones [download example]

Groups: Mapping web services for ePortfolios in post-16 education for 2011. The posters produced by the groups are published as pdf files for downloading:
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Theme 3 Perspectives on decison-making

Four short panel presentations on the latest developments and upcoming issues:

• UCAS: Hashmita Patel, External Relations Officer, UCAS Outreach
• College MIS: Liz Butterworth, Associate Director, Business Processes and Systems, West Nottinghamshire College [presentation]
• Awarding body: Clive Church, Edexcel
• Information, Advice and Guidance: Phil Harley

Groups quizzed the experts on each of the four topics in turn [download worksheet]. They were given 5 minutes to agree questions on a topic, 10 minutes to quiz an expert, and 5 minutes to reflect on discussion before agreeing questions for the next expert.

Concluding remarks: next steps for the user community