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Electronic portfolios are a rapidly developing global phenomenon. In the UK, many Higher Education Institutions have chosen to use e-portfolio systems to support the implementation of Personal Development Planning (PDP).

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PDP supports students in recording and reviewing achievements, reflecting and planning for personal, educational and career development. This approach is highly congruent with other initiatives across the world, such as the AeP project in Australia, the work of SURF in the Netherlands and the recently-formed Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) in the US. These initiatives use e-portfolio tools to promote self-regulated, personalised or integrative learning, to align assessment with learning and to support transitions.

A recurring theme has been the need for robust evaluation and research evidence to inform decisions about effective e-Portfolio and PDP practices.

Key seminar themes

• Tutoring, mentoring, coaching for e-portfolio and PDP practice
• The development of identity and autonomy (inc. self-regulation/personalised learning)
• Engagement: student, staff and community perspectives (inc. staff/ professional development, employability)
• Supporting integrative and reflective learning (inc. co/extra-curricular learning, assessment and feedback, work-based/service learning)
• Institutional change (inc. scaling up, achieving institutional transformation, drivers such as retention, progression, inclusion, achievement)
• Researching e-portfolios and personal development planning: tools, methods, approaches

This event will seek to bring together international researchers, practitioners and HE managers. It will be intentionally inclusive: submissions and participation are invited from both established and emergent researchers. Studies employing various methodologies are welcome, from case studies of individual students and cohorts of staff, to large cross-institutional studies linked to retention and graduation data. We aim to provide an environment that is supportive, developmental and scholarly, within a comfortable, purpose-built residential conference centre.

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Outline programme

The outline programme provides for a mix of short focal sessions, longer thematic symposia and plenary keynote contributions and workshop sessions.

Monday 26 April 2010

Time	Activity
10.00 - 11.00	Registration
11.00 - 11.15	Introductions and welcomes
11.15 - 12.15	The World Views Panel - ‘Researching and Evaluating Personal Development Planning and e-Portfolio’: what do we know, what do we need to know? With expert contributors from Australasia, North America, Mainland Europe and the UK.
12.15 - 13.00	Facilitated workshop based on panel discussions
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.30	Parallel Session 1
14.30 - 14.45	[changeover]
14.45 - 15.15	Parallel Session 2
15.15 - 16.00	Tea/Check-in
16.00 - 17.30	Symposia 1
17.30 - 19.30	Networking
19.30	Dinner

Tuesday 27 April 2010

Time	Activity
08.30 - 09.15	Registration for day delegates
09.15 - 09.45	Parallel Session 3
09.45 - 10.00	[changeover]
10.00 - 10.30	Parallel Session 4
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee
11.00 - 12.00	Keynote contribution: Using e-portfolio technology to build communities of practice.
12.00 - 12.30	Parallel Session 5
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 -15.00	Symposia 2
15.00 - 15.30	Tea
15.30 - 16.30	Keynote contribution: 'Supporting Learning through e-Portfolios -Personal and Professional Development for Students and Staff'.
16.30 - 17.30	Plenary Dialogue – So where are we up to?
17.30 - 19.30	Networking
19.30	Dinner

Wednesday 28 April 2010

Time	Activity
08.30 - 09.15	Registration for day delegates
09.15 - 09.45	Parallel Session 6
09.45 - 10.00	[changeover]
10.00 - 10.30	Parallel Session 7
10.30 -11.00	Coffee
11.00 - 12.15	Stakeholder Panel : What evidence do we need that will encourage our engagement? With contributions from student, employer and senior HE manager perspectives.
12.15 - 13.00	Using the evidence base to sustain and enhance practice at a time of pressure on resources. Your opportunity – within a facilitated workshop - to: i) draw personal learning together; ii) explore potential opportunities for future conversation and collaborative action.
13.00	Close, lunch, depart.

Confirmed Seminar Contributors will include: Barbara Cambridge, President, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning; National Council of Teachers of English, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Darren Cambridge, Assistant Professor, New Century College, George Mason University, USA. Carl Gilleard, Chief Executive, the Association of Graduate Recruiters, UK. Allison Miller, E-portfolios Business Manager, Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Ambjörn Naeve, Head, Knowledge Management Research Group, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Lorraine Stefani, Director of the Centre for Academic Development, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition, Florida State University, USA.

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