Talk:LEAP systems and system owners

LEAP systems and system owners DIAGRAM
Like the diagram: a very good starting point.

This seems to me to be a map of how existing UK systems might look in 3 years time as they move toward a thinner model.

Some things on the diagram exist others are well defined others speculative.

Planning, Development and Profiling services are defined: the last ready for submission to the e-Framework. IAG / planning are the subject of work proposals and workshops within and beyond the JISC community. This will help develop the model: for example, in compulsory education IAG and planning are currently delivered as discrete services. Practice in HE differs and is less extensive.

This raises the question of whether this is a UK model for HE: The LAR and QCA framework are tangentally relevant to HE but the outer ring from ULN down to LSC and across to Edexcel belongs within MIAP and everything across from edexcel (with the exception of other eP system) is informal. JISC has primary responsibility for the Intra-organisation box for HE.

For this reason my recent work has focuses on architectures and the communication of that work to other national stakeholders in order to set a positive agenda for national development "across partners".

Here, I am not comfortable with the conflation of "engine" and "repository" an area that requires careful exploration with specialists in other areas.

The term "e-Portfolio Management System" also seems inappropropriate: beyond the repositories in the current diagram there are other non-Portfolio systems whose data will appear in a learner's portfolio view notably information derived from HR systems.

So great starting point: we'll know when this is getting mature when we can see from a glance at the diagram that a learner's Portfolio is a collection created on the fly when the learner wants in the way the learner wants.

Peter Rees Jones

Well, I coined the term "e-portfolio management system" and my definition has for a long time been at http://www.inst.co.uk/clients/jisc/teche-pdef.html I leave it to others to judge whether it fits or not. Simon Grant 19:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Reusable speclets
Reusable speclets are vital. I also think that the Qualification and Credit Framework 9the unit description bank for vocational qualifications will be important in providing the accurate definition of a unit studied. this information is important for CVs, ILPs and the whole gamut of applications. I think that an eP system is in fact just one part of the spectrum of PLEs and will share the same paradigms and technical solutions. --Clive

E-portfolio management system
To be provocative: where is the "eportfolio management system (engine and repository"? I know this doesn't fit with the thin model and that the thin model is attractive for many reasons (as the PLE) but just as with the PLE case where there are VLEs and will continue to be VLEs for some time, there are PebblePads, OSPIs and probably they will be around a while yet. Our models and LEAP2.0 need to be able to bridge the now and the probable (possible?) future. --Adam 09:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

One might argue that the EPMS is part of (and close-coupled with) the VLE 'suite' - this is probably no less prevalent in actual use today than standalone EPMSs. OSPI is essentially a piece of Sakai, for example. Point taken re present and future: the work should enable "take 1" without precluding "take 2" --Scott 16:45, 21 December 2006 (UTC)