1. Implementing an institution-free model of eportfolio practice across educational sectors: The Nottingham Experience Oxford Friday 13 October 2006 Philip Harley Angela Smallwood

2. Key priorities for Passportfolio Improving transition Personalised Learning Improved advice and guidance Improving and tracking progression Encourage partnership working Recognising all achievement

3. Passportfolio Messaging service Work – a multimedia online space Diary – personal reflection area Research space Reminders of targets Ask Aardvark advice & support function

5. Engaging Learners: What could we evaluate? Quality of applications Effect on induction & retention Social interactions What it adds to the curriculum Usability Enjoyment, engagement & motivation Raising self-esteem, self-awareness & empowerment Its effect on learning

6. Engaging Learners: What we did evaluate? Meeting stakeholder needs Usability Reviewing zone activities The process of writing a personal statement The personal statement Levels of enjoyment Levels of self-awareness

7. Who are the Stakeholders? Schools and Colleges Training Providers & Employers Higher Education Institutions Strategic leaders and funders Advice and guidance services

8. Engaging Stakeholders Identifying institutional priorities and offering to solve problems Championing and enabling partnership and collaboration within an independent consultative framework Local strategic agreements Supporting the varying levels of awareness and technical knowledge

9. Nottingham collaborative implementation RIPPLL – regional interoperability project for progression through lifelong learning – joining up a lifelong learning pathway Technology group consensus: colleges, universities, employer-academy and Passportfolio software company Richer information making transitions with the learner enhanced reception, diagnosis, induction, retention in the new location

10. From City to Region – scaling up the implementation UK initiative for Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs): http://www.hefce.ac.uk/widen/lln/ http://www.hefce.ac.uk/widen/lln/ Policy, Vision, Will, Funding Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire LLN 2007-10, including eportfolio development 1: regionalisation of RIPPLL – coherent infrastructure for Lifelong Learning 2: regionalisation of JOSEPH (2006-09): Lifewide Regional ePF implementation modelled on Nottingham cross-sector pilots

11. UK paradox Pursuit of lifelong learning Culture of institutional autonomy (competition) and implementation of eportfolio policy through institutions Personal ownership of learning VS institutions as providers and quality-assurers of learning – HE more complex than school? The allure and the challenge of institution- free eportfolios for enabling lifelong/wide learning