Portfolio SIG Meeting Chester 2006-12-05

One of the Portfolio SIG events

The meeting
This meeting of the Portfolio SIG was held at Chester on December 5th, 2006, 10:30 to 16:00 at the University of Chester.

The morning programme included brief presentations (and some demonstrations) of lessons learned in e-portfolio projects, and e-portfolio interoperability requirements for upcoming projects (the latter of which are projects of the JISC Programme ‘Cross institutional use of e-learning to support lifelong learning’). We had presentations from: [[Media:LisaGray.ppt|PowerPoint slides]] - [[Media:LisaGray.ogg| Ogg Vorbis audio]] - [[Media:LisaGray.mp3| mp3 audio]] [[Media:KirstieCoolin.ppt|PowerPoint slides]] - [[Media:KirstieCoolin.ogg| Ogg Vorbis audio]] - [[Media:KirstieCoolin.mp3| mp3 audio]] [[Media:LesterGilbert.ppt|PowerPoint slides]] - [[Media:LesterGilbert.ogg| Ogg Vorbis audio]] - [[Media:LesterGilbert.mp3| mp3 audio]] [[Media:RogerClark.ppt|PowerPoint slides]] - [[Media:RogerClark.ogg| Ogg Vorbis audio]] - [[Media:RogerClark.mp3| mp3 audio]] [[Media:GarfieldSouthall.ppt|PowerPoint slides]] - [[Media:GarfieldSouthall.ogg| Ogg Vorbis audio]] - [[Media:GarfieldSouthall.mp3| mp3 audio]] [[Media:SelwynLloyd2.ppt|PowerPoint slides]] | IoNetwork portal projects [[Media:ShaneSutherland1.ppt|PowerPoint slides 1]], [[Media:ShaneSutherland2.ppt|PowerPoint slides 2]] - Ogg Vorbis audio [[Media:ShaneSutherlandPart0.ogg|intro]], [[Media:ShaneSutherlandPart1.ogg|Part 1]], [[Media:ShaneSutherlandPart2.ogg|Part 2]] - mp3 audio [[Media:ShaneSutherlandPart0.mp3|intro]], [[Media:ShaneSutherlandPart1.mp3|Part 1]], [[Media:ShaneSutherlandPart2.mp3|Part 2]] [[Media:AndyHeath.ppt|PowerPoint slides]]
 * Lisa Gray, JISC: overview document of what areas JISC is working in, how eportfolio is one of JISC's themes in the e-learning programme
 * Kirstie Coolin, Nottingham: "UKLeaP - Reflections: A practical look at using the standards in proof of concept models of interoperability"
 * Lester Gilbert, University of Southampton, mPLAT: Modelling achievement, competence and prior learning
 * Roger Clark, GMSA: ioNW2 (interoperability network in the northwest) project
 * Garfield Southall, University of Chester: the SOLVS project
 * Selwyn Lloyd, Phosphorix: technical demonstrations and outlook, from the perspective of several JISC projects
 * Shane Sutherland, University of Wolverhampton and Pebble Learning: Practical experience and thinking about future e-portfolio specs.
 * Andy Heath, EU4ALL: From an accessibility point of view, what needs to be taken into account in future e-portfolio spec developments?

Adam Cooper, Deputy Director, JISC CETIS, kindly agreed to chair the session that followed lunch. Current ideas were be put together with the requirements introduced in the morning, towards charting the future direction of interoperability standards and specifications in the e-portfolio domain. This was intended to help everyone to understand which practical directions to take towards interoperability in their e-portfolio projects.

Ogg Vorbis audio [[Media:Discussion1.ogg|1]] [[Media:Discussion2.ogg|2]] [[Media:Discussion3.ogg|3]] [[Media:Discussion4.ogg|4]] [[Media:Discussion5.ogg|5]] [[Media:Discussion6.ogg|6]] [[Media:Discussion7.ogg|7]] - mp3 audio [[Media:Discussion1.mp3|1]] [[Media:Discussion2.mp3|2]] [[Media:Discussion3.mp3|3]] [[Media:Discussion4.mp3|4]] [[Media:Discussion5.mp3|5]] [[Media:Discussion6.mp3|6]] [[Media:Discussion7.mp3|7]]

The final session was aimed at the establishment of consensus and action points for the Portfolio SIG team and community. See below.

Information about projects in the JISC Programme ‘Cross institutional use of e-learning to support lifelong learning’ is available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning_capital/el_xinstit.aspx

1. Priorities for JISC (to fund)
It was suggested that money could be sought if a specific deliverable can be foreseen, or facilitator/leader can be identified to move things along.
 * to develop 'dividing up LIP/UKLeaP into parts' - follow the XCRI model where applicable.

It was AGREED to take this forward through the CETIS-Portfolio-DEV list, and that the development will be called (for now anyway) 'LEAP 2.0'.


 * functional implementation of accessibility preferences for e-portfolio.

2. Engage with other groups with an interest in e-portfolio developments
such as professional bodies, employers, unions, 14 - 19, other non-HE educational sectors including MIAP.

3. Ontology conclave

 * The concept here was to get together people with an interest in ontology-level modelling of the e-portfolio domain, including competence and assessment, and give them an opportunity to come up with an agreed core model or ontology for areas where various people have an interest.
 * Extend ontology domain work to the e-framework.

4. Systems interoperation meeting

 * Get together and test out 'how do we get these systems to work together?'

Possible model: Convene an initial meeting by invitation only, perhaps a 2 day-long event. Date could be found with Meetomatic. For working groups: start with one group and work up. 3 - 4 major players to "get something done together" - transfer data between systems, to and fro several times. (Check out how XCRI approached this). Please contact us (SIG coordinators) about the outcomes that you envisage from such a meeting.

Shane offered U/Wolverhampton (Telford campus) as a venue, especially on a Saturday. ''Who should convene this meeting? Note that a separate JISC CETIS 'code bash' and support for e-learning programme is planned for late spring.''

5. Communicating progress

 * Communicate progress to the community, perhaps through journals or summaries (compare what Mark Stubbs did for XCRI) - maybe via JISC CETIS blog and/or wiki. This may require more than one person contributing, and would need integration. These edit links seem a bit random

6. Competency issues

 * Follow up e-portfolio and e-assessment link in this area.

Approach this by getting involvement of relevant projects, including the DeL Subject Centre Projects such as for Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Law, also HORUS, Minerva, and others. Please put forward your project for addition here if you think it fits the bill.

Coordinators' actions

 * Helen to circulate the link to this page to everyone on today's delegate list and the Portfolio list.
 * Simon to initialise development of road map for LEAP 2.0 over next 2 weeks on the Portfolio-dev list.
 * Helen to invite the community to suggest additional action points for development of LEAP 2.0.
 * Helen and Simon to take forward proposals for the meetings above to JISC CETIS 'People and Systems' team, and to follow through with Lisa Gray.