Petal Project Brief for Steering Group
A personal e-portfolio is more than the CV of the 21st century, with a
list of qualifications and experience. An e-portfolio can help learners
reflect on their learning, help people move and progress from school to
college to university and into work, help workers to learn on the job,
and help increase participation in education and lifelong learning.
HEFCE is to invest £112,000 over 7 months in the development of new
computer-based tools to link teachers with learners and learners with
jobs through the Personal e-portfolio for teaching and learning (Petal)
project. This project is part of the JISC e-Learning Tools programme.
Petal is being managed by Oxford Brookes University’s Centre for eLearning (C4eL) and will be developed by a consortium including:
• Abingdon Witney College
• Sheffield College
• Thames Valley Professional Institutes Partnership (TVPIP)
• Oxfordshire Community Learning Support Unit.
The Brookes-based Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is using its certification scheme (CMALT) for the pilot programme.
The JISC-supported Centre for Recording Achievement is advising the project.
Seven months isn’t a long time to make this happen, but then we’re not starting from scratch; open source software and other e-learning tools pioneered by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are at the heart of this project, and 10 experienced learning technologists from four different post compulsory education sectors (universities, colleges, adult community learning and professional institutes) will work with the project implementation group:
• Oxford Brookes University’s Media Workshop
• software developers Knowledge Integration of Sheffield
The Learning Technologists will specify the functional requirements of the ePortfolio tool, use it to develop their own portfolios, and then test components of the tool as they become available.
The partnership established through Petal will continue to encourage ever widening participation, progression and mobility. When version one of the Petal tool is completed, the partners will write 10 use cases for the application of the tool in their own domain of practice and develop a template for adapting the tool to different learning contexts; The consortium is already bidding for funding to develop these 10 use cases and is working with the University of Brighton to develop new applications for the tool in businesses, refugee communities, trades unions and agricultural studies. The portfolio tool will be used by learners in real lifelong learning situations starting in September 2005.
Links
Petal
Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
Abingdon Witney College
Centre for Recording Achievement
JISC Distributed e-Tools
Knowledge Integration
Oxford Brookes University Media Workshop
Sheffield College
Thames Valley Professional Institutes Partnership
Contact
George Roberts
Development Director, Off-campus e-Learning
Oxford Brookes University
Headington
Oxford, OX3 0BP
groberts@brookes.ac.uk
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/virtual/
Petal is being managed by Oxford Brookes University’s Centre for eLearning (C4eL) and will be developed by a consortium including:
• Abingdon Witney College
• Sheffield College
• Thames Valley Professional Institutes Partnership (TVPIP)
• Oxfordshire Community Learning Support Unit.
The Brookes-based Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is using its certification scheme (CMALT) for the pilot programme.
The JISC-supported Centre for Recording Achievement is advising the project.
Seven months isn’t a long time to make this happen, but then we’re not starting from scratch; open source software and other e-learning tools pioneered by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are at the heart of this project, and 10 experienced learning technologists from four different post compulsory education sectors (universities, colleges, adult community learning and professional institutes) will work with the project implementation group:
• Oxford Brookes University’s Media Workshop
• software developers Knowledge Integration of Sheffield
The Learning Technologists will specify the functional requirements of the ePortfolio tool, use it to develop their own portfolios, and then test components of the tool as they become available.
The partnership established through Petal will continue to encourage ever widening participation, progression and mobility. When version one of the Petal tool is completed, the partners will write 10 use cases for the application of the tool in their own domain of practice and develop a template for adapting the tool to different learning contexts; The consortium is already bidding for funding to develop these 10 use cases and is working with the University of Brighton to develop new applications for the tool in businesses, refugee communities, trades unions and agricultural studies. The portfolio tool will be used by learners in real lifelong learning situations starting in September 2005.
Links
Petal
Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
Abingdon Witney College
Centre for Recording Achievement
JISC Distributed e-Tools
Knowledge Integration
Oxford Brookes University Media Workshop
Sheffield College
Thames Valley Professional Institutes Partnership
Contact
George Roberts
Development Director, Off-campus e-Learning
Oxford Brookes University
Headington
Oxford, OX3 0BP
groberts@brookes.ac.uk
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/virtual/
