ePortfolios: Mapping the Future Liz Butterworth Associate Director: Business Processes & Systems

Know your student… FE colleges to be better prepared to serve the individual needs of the student –Prior achievement –Physical needs –Learning needs –Learning styles –Aspirations –Support needs Teaching and Support Teams to be better informed –Resource efficiencies –Effective planning –Improved success rate

Links into MIS systems Current situation –Paper or attachment for enquires and applications –Keyed into MIS systems –Checking and confirming with students –Additional costs and resources to capture data already held by some other organisations or agencies Future –MIAP vision –Automatic data transfer between systems at the authorisation of the student. –Web services or portal technologies

Links from MIS system Work placement hosts – Student to send CV type information Potential employers –Student to send CV in response to job advertisement –Employers to give selection criteria to FE provider for potential candidates to be identified

Student Record System Providers Allow for data from 3rd Party software to be imported and validated Agresso/Distinction Systems Limited –use a Data Translation Centre (DTC) to set up mappings for data sets e.g. enquiries, applications, enrolments, changes to biographicals etc. Providers to offer data transfers in and out of the student record system

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