What can JISC do for CETLs?

Peter Rees JonesCETIS ePortfolio feasibility study &Centre for International ePortfolio

Development

Identifying development priorities for the eFramework to

address

The eFramework• A strategic development between JISC and international

partners such as DEST• An approach which focuses on the process not the product• A “service oriented approach” which looks at the ICT

“services” supporting a process.• I will exemplify rather than explain the approach looking: -• FIRST at a flow of services making up a process• SECOND at the “web services” that lie within each service

The Application to HE process will offer rich information about learners to practioners developing ePortfolios.

But how can ICT help them develop their practice?i.e. what “services” & “web services” may your CETL need?

And what are the priorities for their development?We will ask you to undertake an exercise to identify your needs.

We don’t expect you to be constrained by the following example!

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model

ePortfolio

LearningPlans

Abstract Use Case:

A chain of Services

to produce an

Individual Learning

Plan for a learner applying to HE through UCAS

The services making up a process

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

LearningPlans

1.

Trigger

1. An assessment result is posted to the learner through an ePortfolio.

• (The hatpin is an interface for the data to be passed into the ePortfolio)

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Personal Development Service

LearningPlans

1.

2.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model2. I call this information into an ePortfolio enabled Personal Development Service.

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Personal Development Service

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model3. The PD Service fetches the information I need to review the results against my goals...

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Personal Development Service

Pathway Information Service

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4. 5.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model

5. …taking account of pathway information about the grades I need to meet my goals.

4. …in the context of past reflections…

3. The PD Service fetches the information I need to review the results against my goals...

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Personal Development Service

Pathway Information Service

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4. 5.

ePortfolio Identifying GapsAt this point I will probably want to chat informally with my friends

What did you get? What should I do?

We may have a preferred service we use (say MSN)

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Personal Development Service

Pathway Information Service

IAG planning Service

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model

7. Pathway Info is called.

6. An IAG planning service allows me to choose which of my reflections to make available to my advisor.

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Dialogues

Personal Development Service

Pathway Information Service

IAG planning Service8.

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.

ePortfolio Identifying gaps8. My dialogue with my advisor is recorded

(The learner may well be accessing other advice from other sources: - how does this get into the ePortfolio?)

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Dialogues

Personal Development Service

Pathway Information Service

IAG planning Service8.

LearningPlans

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model8. My dialogue with my advisor is recorded

(The learner may well be accessing other advice from other sources)

9. I negotiate a formal learning plan with my advisor

ePortfolio

Assessment Results & comments

Assessment Service

Learner Reflections

Dialogues

Personal Development Service

Pathway Information Service

IAG planning Service8.

LearningPlans

9.

Learner Goals

1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

7.

5.

10.

UCAS APPLY

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model9. I negotiate a formal learning plan with my advisor.

10. I carry through the plan and apply to HE

• One of the actions in the plan is to develop a Personal Statement.

• The ePortfolio Reference Model will demonstrate a set of web services within the application to HE process.

• The web services help the applicant draw on their ePortfolio to complete the Personal Statement (and a referee to ad comments).

Drilling down to web services

Drilling down to web services

Presentational eP: Personal Statement

Student Personal ePortfolio

Applicant

Course Entry Profile

Presentational ePortfolio

Course entry requirement

Course entry requirement

Assertion Activity Evidence

Assertion Activity

• The applicant selects a course

• WS1 Course entry requirements populate a blank template

• WS 2 helps the applicant draw down material from the eP

• WS 3 helps the applicant link to evidence in the eP

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model

Presentational eP: Personal Statement

Student Personal ePortfolio

Reference

Applicant

Course Entry Profile

Presentational ePortfolio

Course entry requirement

Course entry requirement

Assertion

Testimonial

Activity Evidence

Evaluation

Referee

Assertion Activity

• WS 4 allows a referee to add comments

ePortfolio Initial Reference Model

Overview of the Process

Student Personal ePortfolio

Reference

Applicant

Course Entry Profile

Presentational ePortfolio

Course entry requirement

Course entry requirement

Assertion

Testimonial

Activity Evidence

Admissions OfficerEvaluation

RefereeQualifications

MOSAIC data

School data

Assertion Activity

Message1

• Other web services will be specified to repurpose the information so that an admissions officer can make effective use of richer information at no extra cost in terms of staff time

JISC & UCAS

• JISC and UCAS are developing a partnership to provide ICT services to support students in the HE application process and enhance the business process within HEIs.

• This will also cover induction to HE

• We will be asking colleagues: -

Gaps and priorities

• What UCAS information might form a starting point for an HE ePortfolio?

• To answer this you need to know what processes will make use of the information

• This may suggest gaps in the information• You might want information from the college eP

not in UCAS; say formative assessments• Another might want information about work

experience or employment goals form the old eP• JISC is seeking to understand your priorities.

The exercise• We are not asking you to tell us about the processes that

could use UCAS / college information, this is only an example.

• We do want to know what ePortfolio enabled processes your CETL wants to develop and their relative priority.

• This will form part of a matrix to help JISC prioritize the development of services and the web services they contain

• We will develop the matrix with other stakeholders• Including ePortfolio practitioners in NL “CETLs”• We would like to arrange some marriages for joint UK /

NL work on ePortfolios!