lllwfd online event 9 july 2009

Welcome to Breakout session for

LLLWFD projects - Making connectionsOnline event : 9 July 2009

Presenting projects:

HELLO

TELSTAR

ePPSME

Co-genT

WELL

HELLO

Lucy Stone

Leicester College

The HELLO project• Higher Education Lifelong Learning Opportunities• To enable students to build networks of communication,

support and mentoring with peers, tutors, businesses and other HE institutions

• http://hello.lec.ac.uk• Project would like to make contact with other projects

around the following topic/s– Use of Moodle and Mahara– Support work based learners– Engaging employers

• Contact:Lucy Stonelstone@lec.ac.uk 0116 2242047

TELSTAR

Beverley Leeds & Amy Wright

Lancashire Business School

Technology Enhanced Support forLearning & Training AccreditationRecognition Project

The overall aim is to provide Contact Centre employers,employees and learning providers in the region with alearning framework and web portal including technologyenabled systems and processes to assess, accredit andsupport business focused learning opportunities.

The specific objectives of TELSTARare to:

– Design and develop an online Learning Framework – Design and develop a Knowledge, Skills and

Competencies Audit tool – Design and develop an Accreditation of Prior Learning

Expert System – Implement an ePortfolio, reflective learning journal

and CV builder – Supply online learning support materials – Provide a learning community that offers an online

social network – Design and develop a Credit Recognition expert

system – Implement a web portal

TELSTAR would like to make contact with otherprojects around the following topics

– Employer Engagement– Accredited Prior Learning (Experiential & Credited)– Negotiated Learning– Credit Recognition of Employers Training– E-portfolios

AYWright@uclan.ac.uk 01772 89 4698

www.telstarproject.ning.com

Alison FelceUniversity of Wolverhampton

Institute for Learning Enhancement

• Dev eloping an e-Portfolio based Pedagogy for SMEs

• Main project goals:– Addressing specific needs of SME based

learners– Bespoke e-portfolio based curricula– Range of work-based learning modules

within flexible accreditation framework

• Contact with other projects around:– E-portfolio use / PebblePad– Culture change – Negotiated / personalised learning– Learner support (mentoring, on-line)

• Contact person for assembly interest:– Alison Felce, a.e.felce@wlv.ac.uk, 01902

322361

Co-genT:Co-generative Toolkit

Phil Gravestock

University of Gloucestershire

The project

Lead site:

• University of Gloucestershire

Partners:

• University of Winchester

• Western Vocational Lifelong Learning Network

• Pebble Learning

The project

Aim:

• To support the co-generation of demand-led curriculum development

Builds on:

• Developments at the University of Gloucestershire, e.g. the Gloucestershire Framework for Personal and Professional Development

Would like to make contact...

• ...with other project teams who have an interest in the vocabulary used by higher education and employers.

Contact details

Project website:

http://resources.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/projects/cogent/

Contact (at assembly):

Phil Gravestock

pgravestock@glos.ac.uk

01242 714626

Workforce Engagement in Lifelong Learning (WELL)

Ibrar Butt / Vicki Illingworth

University of Bradford

WELL

• Will create a flexible model of module/unit delivery that:– can be used on any academic programme– fits around employer and student needs rather than

institutional timeframes and structures– encourages greater participation from learners in

employment in a range of industries and business sectors

• Project would like to make contact with other projects around the following topic/s– APL and accreditation of employers in-house training– Culture change from F/T UG to part-time work-based

learning– Flexible curriculum delivery (e.g. Shell framework)

WELL

Contact:

Ibrar Butt, Project Officer

01274 235638

i.butt@bradford.ac.uk

Escalate

University of Bradford

F34 Richmond Building

Richmond Road

Bradford BD7 1DP

ePPPSME-E-portfolio use / PebblePad-Culture change -Negotiated / personalised learning-Learner support (mentoring, on-line) Alison Felce, a.e.felce@wlv.ac.uk, 01902 322361

TELSTAR Employer Engagement - Accredited Prior Learning (Experiential & Credited) - Negotiated Learning - Credit Recognition of Employers Training-E-portfoliosAmy Wright AYWright@uclan.ac.uk 01772 89 4770 www.telstarproject.ning.com

– Leicester– Use of Moodle and

Mahara– Support work based

learners– Engaging employersLucy Stone

lstone@lec.ac.uk 0116 2242047 http://hello.lec.ac.uk

WELL - APL and accreditation of employers in-house training - Culture change from F/T UG to part-time work-based learning - Flexible curriculum delivery (e.g. Shell framework)

Ibrar Butt - Bradford 01274 235638i.butt@bradford.ac.uk

Co-gentTCo-generation of demand-led curriculum development /PPD

Phil Gravestock

http://resources.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/projects/cogent/pgravestock@glos.ac.uk01242 714626

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