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Projects

See the MLEs for Lifelong Learning outputs website. This site lists all outputs emerging from the projects and programme.

The projects are large consortium based projects, which have been working closely with JISC services, programmes, initiatives and the development team.

• Main projects These projects will be the focus for the development of cross-institutional architectures to support learning across FE/HE institutions
  • Northern Ireland Integrated Managed Learning Environment  Lead Institution: Belfast Institute of Further & Higher Education
  • Southwest Hosts Enhancing Lifelong Learning (SHELL) Lead Institution: University of Plymouth
• Supporting studies and projects These will investigate and develop specific requirements of the cross-institutional architectures
  • Supporting Study of Managed Learning Environment Activity in UK FE and HE (Sept 2002 - July 2003) Undertaken by a consortium led by the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) at the University of Brighton
  • Supporting Study of Environments to Support e-Learning (October 2004 - December 2005) A repeat of the 2003 Supporting Study of Managed Learning Environment Activity in UK FE and HE, undertaken by the same consortium
  • Developing Learner Profiles across HE and FE (Nov 2002 - July 2003).Supporting project being undertaken by the Centre for Recording Achievement
  • Study to Explore the Legal & Records Management Issues Relating to the Concept of the Lifelong Learner Record (Mar 04 - Feb 05)
•  Phase 1 overview Report on the progress of the Phase 1 projects and supporting studies for the benefit of the Phase 2 projects and staff
  • Phase 1 Overview Report
• MLEs for lifelong learning: Phase 2 These projects will further explore the development of MLEs to support the lifelong learner.
  • Delivering a Foundation Degree through a Managed Learning Environment (Theme 1) Lead Institution: University College Worcester
  • MUSCLE: Managed University, School, College, Learning Environments (Theme 1) Lead Institution: Blackpool & Fylde College
  • Implementing the e-College Wales MLE (Theme 1) Lead Institution: University of Glamorgan
  • Union Education Online (UEO) (Theme 1&2) Lead Institution: Stow College, Glasgow
  • PROSPERO: Processes for Support of Personal Development Records Online (Theme 2&3) Lead Institution: Queen Mary London
  • Transfer of Portfolios Assisting Lifelong Learning Project (Theme 3) Lead Institution: Liverpool University
  • Developing learning and teaching aspects of progress file and the personal development profile across FE and HE (Theme 3) Lead Institution: Loughborough College
  • Specifying an e-portfolio: Enhanced learner information for flexible admissions and transitions into Higher Education (EP4HE2FE) (Themes 2,3&4) Lead Institution: Nottingham University
• Programme support and evaluation These projects will support the programme activities to maximise benefit to the wider community.
  • MLEs For Lifelong Learning Support Project, Centre for Recording Achievement
  • Formative Evaluation Project, Glenaffric Ltd

Events and workshops

2002
Programme meeting, September 2002

2003
Programme meeting, February 2003
01-01 updates workshop, July 2003
Programme meeting, 15/16 October 2003

2004
Vendors meeting, 15 January (Cancelled)
Workshop: Towards making your Personal Development Planning/e-portfolio systems interoperable, 29 January 2004
Programme meeting, 25/26 February 2004
Workshop: Skills, competencies and their representation for lifelong learning and employment 15 April 2004
Workshop: Sharing PDP practice, purposes and processes through the CETIS website 29^th April/27^th May 2004
Workshop: Communicating complex ideas 19 May 2004
LIPSIG meeting with a focus on accessibility, 23 June 2004
Programme meeting, June 2004
ioNodes technical meeting, 25 June 2004
Bi-annual reports, 31 July 2004
Writing scenarios – Peter Rees-Jones (tentative) 22 Sept 2004
Programme meeting with LIPSIG Meeting, joint with e-Learning Frameworks & Tools programme, 4/5 Nov 2004
Visits: Evaluators Nov/Dec 2004

2005
LIPSIG meeting, 17 Jan 2005
Bi-annual reports, 31 Jan 2005
Programme meeting, 22/23 Feb 2005
ALT / infoNet workshop - 'IT won't work here!', 24 Feb 2005
Visits: Steering Group and/or Programme Manager, Mar/Apr 2005
Legal study seminar 'Developing Lifelong Learner Record Systems and ePortfolios in FE and HE: Planning for and coping with legal issues' at Wolverhampton Science Park Conference Centre, 11 Apr 2005
JISC conference, 12 Apr 2005
CRA / JISC event Joining the Electronic Dots' at Sheffield Hallam University, 16 May 2005
Reports: Deadline for initial drafts of final reports, 31 May 2005
Programme meeting: Final programme event, Jun/July 2005
Reports: Deadline for final reports and completion reports, 31 July 2005

Briefings and reports

MLE briefings and reports Selection of briefings and reports related to the MLE programmes
Authentication study - undertaken by Nicole Harris/John Paschoud, LSE - February 2003
Report on the study of MLE activities across the UK in FE and HE (August 2003)
ioForums Development of the ioNode information
ioNode - A Framework for interoperability - rar v1.0  
Developing learner profiles across HE and FE Report on the project outputs
Legal issues relating to the concept of the lifelong learner record  Project Killer report
Developing a methodology for building a reference model of e-Portfolio Paper by Peter Rees Jones (January 2005)
e-Portfolios in post-16 learning in the UK: developments, issues and opportunities Report by Helen Beetham (2005)
Learner related information and artifacts in the United States: a comprehensive analysis of projects and practices Paper by Darren Cambridge, PhD. (last updated 2004)
MLEs for lifelong learning formative evaluation report Final formative evaluation report for the programme produced by Glenaffric Ltd (November 2005)

Project support and guidance

Project management protocol 
Project plan overview 
Final report template
Completion report template
Web template
Programme dates
Case study template