ULCC e-ILP Focus Group
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Transcript of ULCC e-ILP Focus Group
ULCC 25th November 2011
ULCC E-ILP2 focus group: What drives e-ILPs?
Improving Quality: Inspection
Ensure each learner has:
o Initial assessments
o An individual learning plan
o Mapped route for achievement of goals
QIA – Excellence Gateway
‘Encourage all organisations to support a personal online learning space for learners.’
DFES – Harnessing Technology, e-Strategy
• Provides support for the process of learning through mapped routes from a starting point to the achievement of individual goals, for example completing frameworks, or gaining sustainable employment.
Personalised Learning Plans
For learners?
For staff?
For organisations?
What Drives e-ILPs?
Impact of e-ILPs
Within the 1st year retention grew from 62% to 92% and achievement from 69% to 73%
For students, the most popular and motivating tool has been the instantaneous access to their timetables, attendance and punctuality reports. This has also resulted in significant cost savings.
Lewisham College (Link to report)
Impact of e-ILPs
"It works for me because it focuses on my individual needs and is delivered on my terms rather than forcing me into a classroom to do something I'm not interested in.“
Foyer Federation
http://www.foyer.net/level2.asp?level2id=15
Interest in ILPs
‘ILPs remain a central nexus of practice – they exist where a number of discourses and policy meet, are highly contentious among practitioners, and rhetorically support personalised learning opportunities’.
- Hamilton (2009)
Learning Management
Learning Skills
Transition Guidance
Pupil Management
Focus of ILPs
Pupil Management
•Micro-targets
•Behavioural Change
Focus•Improv
e learner success
•Progress towards curricula goals
Goals
•Often judged in relation to achievement and retention
Evaluation
•Curricula/funding goals may be different to learners’ goals
•Learners perceive them as irrelevant and refrain from reflection on identity and goals
Issues
Transition Guidance
•Macro-targets
•Transition stages
Focus
•Support learner progression
Goals
•Assessed retrospectively through progression routes
Evaluation
•Learners often see the process as career planning rather than action planning
Issues
Learning Skills
•Lifelong learning skills
•Reflection on learning
Focus
•Planning itself is seen as a valuable exercise to teach, with complex skills and qualities developed by learners
Goals
•Qualitative improvements of the learners’ perception of self where effort is rewarded as well as ability
Evaluation
•Learners may not value literacies of lifelong learning and so we are influencing behaviour rather than developing skills
Issues
Learning Management
There’s probably a long way to go with learners generally to get them to perceive education as something they’re participants in rather than recipients of ... I think it’s simply that we haven’t got far enough down the line yet with the whole situation.
ILPs & e-Learning
‘e-learning is ideally centred on the set of student tasks’- Carr-Chellman & Duchastel, 2000
Learning activities can be classified by who is principally
directing the activity:Self-directed
Peer-directedTeacher-directed
- Biggs, 2003
Ownership
Developing empowering cultures requires skill, thought and a commitment to valuing and exploring processes,not just focusing on the ‘product’- Haigh, 1999
Attachment (belonging)
Containment (safety)
Communication (openness)
Involvement (citizenship)
Agency (participation)
Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
Formative assessment tool providing scaffolding to heighten learner awareness. Dialogue creates shared vision for future development which can only be judged in relation to that vision. Adaptive customisation affords learners standard tools (e.g. target setting, progress review, etc.) to create a unique learning path.
Why new ILP?
Shared Service
Popular module
Improved success
Moodle 2.0
Issue
•Not compatible with Moodle 2.0
Solution
•Rewrite module - display, database, integration
•Github source control
Future
•Forward compatibility
Functional Programming
Issue
•Inconsistent behaviour
•Expensive developments
Solution
•Object-oriented programming
•Extensible plug-ins
Future
•Unlimited possibilities
Hard-coded form designs
Issue
•Impossible to change
•Hard limit of 4 reports
Solution
•Form design GUI
•Optional field types
Future
•Customise forms for individuals
HTML Templates
Issue
•Poor accessibility
•Not supported on all platforms
Solution
•Standards based forms
•Cross-browser compatibility
Future
•Cross-platform compatibility
ILP View
Issue
•Single hierarchical view
•Hard-coded templates
Solution
•Dashboard template
•Configurable page areas
Future
•Cross-platform compatibility
•User designed page
Textual display
Issue
•ILP is text dominated
Solution
•New form field types
•Display plug-ins
Future
•Multiple views
•Visualisations
Reporting
Issue
•Reporting is limited
Solution
•Field filters
•Tutor Dashboard
Future
•Advanced report options
Fixed this week
Latest Updates
• Deadlines added to calendar• Visual indicator of states• Super-user capability• Overdue targets flagged• Targets send email reminders
Summary
Roadmap
New opportunities How to manage development?
Features
New feature set Did all features migrate?
Redesign
Entirely new ILP Do we need new practice?