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Unit 2: Activity 2.1-Drivers Template

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Edited by Elena Kondyli, Thursday, 18 Feb 2010, 12:55

 

Drivers Table

Region

Key drivers

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UK

Government (DfES):  lifelong learning strategy, e-learning strategy, learning transcripts, Personal Development Records

Strong government push to lifelong learning/e-learning, etc.

QAA, progress files, LTSNs, Centre for Recording Achievement, etc.

Professional organisations in post-compulsory education have a 'best-practice' agenda that promotes PDP

JISC e-portfolio projects:  lifetime learning (application, transition, learning-teaching and assessment, Personal Development Planning -PDP & Continuing Professional Development - CPD)

Push from research organisations, software developers and international standards organisations

Institutional e-portfolio systems:  Promote PDP or CPD, embed learner-centred pedagogies, tutorial programmes

Individual universities and colleges promoting their own practices and systems

Europe

Europass readiness study:  Euro portfolio contributes to the definition and implementation of eStrategies to promote innovative practice and technology, and encourages the adoption of technical standards that will enable interoperability, between a range of e-portfolio systems and with other information systems (Interoperability is the key to maximise the number and quality of services offered to e-portfolio owners)

Engagement upon an orchestrated effort involving both educational and corporate institutions to define, design and develop digital portfolio systems that meet the needs of all stakeholders

 

 

 

 

 

Finland, Norway, Italy and Catalonia:  Strong policy drive to integrate the use of portfolios in educational settings for different levels of education

Different portfolio initiatives, some of which are more technology driven, whereas others focus more on introducing the concept of portfolios in education.

 

 

USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Existing systems: integrated assessment facility or interoperable with separate assessment systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some study programs: Refer to an e-portfolio as a diagnostic profile

This allows evidence to be collated, presented and assessed and feedback given within the same user environment and suggests that assessment and moderation of e-portfolios could be considerably streamlined

 

 

 

Information should be recorded in order to help learners understand how they learn and to share this information with learning organisations and tutors/mentors

 

 

 

 

 

Elsewhere

Australia: The VET e-professional roadmap, a national strategic plan designed to support the diverse requirements for e-portfolios in vocational education and training (VET), was released on 18 June 2009 by the national training system's e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.   Developed from extensive research and national stakeholder consultations, the Roadmap aims to assist in the development of a national standards-based framework to support the use of e-portfolios across VET.

 

RPL (recognition of prior learning), fast tracking apprenticeships, traineeships and work-based learning, reengagement, retention, reintegration and supporting learner mobility, empowering learners.  The Roadmap outlines nine strategic goals with a focus on portability, verification, privacy, ownership, access control, infrastructure, storage, embedding and transitions

 

http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/news.htm#a7

http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/news.htm#a7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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