IoNetwork portal projects

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PDP4Life
Following directly from the SHELL projects legacy, the University of Bournemouth based PDP4LIFE team researched and designed various ePDP systems. The projects FE partners engaged in a process to establish commonality for the exchange of PDP documents in a regional context and a specification was produced prior to our engagement. A PDP inbox was added to ioPortal tools to allow tutors or students to upload PDP documents created in any of the other systems used by partners. Students and tutors can use the PDP4LIFE ioPortal to categorise [tag] and reflect on their PDP documents or indeed enter into dialogue with their peers, students, mentors, tutors etc according to their given relationship. The PDP4LIFE PDP inbox development allows tutors to upload official PDP documents or actual PDP evidence and mark such items as authentic. Over and above any institutional or political context the secure nature of the ioNetwork system allows for a service which corroborates evidence in a hosted e-portfolio solution. This same potential was foreseen in the Lifelong Learner Record developed with SHELL. It was also foreseen that authentic records and documents are of significant value in the business and employment sectors.

http://pdp4life.ionetwork.ac.uk/pdp4life/

EP4LL
http://ep4ll.ionetwork.ac.uk/

The ePortfolio Reference Model project (ePortfolio for Lifelong Learning) commissioned Phosphorix to build a demonstrator showing how a learner wanting to apply for a course could use a web service to access a structured course entry profile residing on a central system (e.g. UCAS). This could then be used by the learner to structure a personal statement specific to that course within a local ePortfolio system. The specification for this was written for the project by the consultant Alan Paull and is available at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/epreferencemodel/specification/narrative.html (service GetCourseEntryProfile). The Phosphorix demonstrator also shows how the learner could fetch 'one I prepared earlier' statements already stored in the ePortfolio system and match them to the prompts in the course entry profile. eP4LL has proposed a 'thin' model of ePortfolio where the learner is able to use a series of services to access distributed data and information dynamically from a central point. The full report is available on the project website at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/epreferencemodel/finalreport.htm.

Some of the functionality in this demonstrator is due to be explored further by the SOLVS project.

EELLS
http://www.showcase.herts.ac.uk

Showcase and CV Builders Grant Access

The Learning Matrix - Original LMX
http://learningmatrix.ionetwork.ac.uk/lmx-studentportal/

Liverpool City of Learning CPD Noticeboard
http://www.cpdnoticeboard.ac.uk

Phos-shed
http://lmxdev1.ionetwork.ac.uk/phos-shed/

Icebox
http://icebox.ionetwork.ac.uk/

ioMorph
http://iomorph.ionetwork.ac.uk/