JISC

The North East Regional Collaboration for Personalised, Work-Based and Lifelong Learning (EPICS-2) project aims to make a significant impact on the development of support for personalised learning, work-based learning, and life-long learning. This will be achieved through large-scale pilots and evaluation of ePortfolios and related-systems to support personalised learning pathways in undergraduate and postgraduate education, development of mobile solutions with asynchronous connections to ePortfolio, large-scale pilots of ePortfolios, blogs, social publishing and other Web2.0 features, and the transfer of learner’s portfolio data (FE & HE). In addition, there will be a detailed review of technologies to support work-based learning, drawing on the considerable expertise in this area within the region. This will help meet the agendas for employability and employer-led training.

The EPICS-2 project builds on the considerable success and deliverables of the First EPICS project which has helped develop a strong regional collaboration in the North East around technology, pedagogy and governance of ePortfolios and PDP.

The project aims to make a significant impact on the development of support for personalised learning, work-based learning, and life-long learning. This will be achieved through large-scale pilots and evaluation of ePortfolios and related-systems to support personalised learning pathways in undergraduate and postgraduate education, development of mobile solutions with asynchronous connections to ePortfolio, large-scale pilots of ePortfolios, blogs, social publishing and other Web2.0 features, and the transfer of learner’s portfolio data (FE & HE). In addition, there will be a detailed review of technologies to support work-based learning, drawing on the considerable expertise in this area within the region. This will help meet the agendas for employability and employer-led training.

As well as regional impact, the project deliverables (including technical developments, case studies from large-scale pilots, evaluation, reports and reviews, dissemination events etc.) will have applicability to the wider JISC community and other sectors. It will also further develop the ePET portfolio, which is currently being used at 12 institutions with approximately 10,000 users.

Aims and objectives 

• Developing expertise and capacity through partnership and collaboration
• Develop and improve support for personalised learning and work-based learning
• Supporting mobility and life-long learning
• Evaluating the impact of the project
• Maximising the impact of the project

Project methodology

• Regional Forum events project to support and promote effective use of PDP/ePortfolios in the region.
• Large-scale pilots to evaluate the use of ePortfolio to support personalised learning pathways, blogs and social networking
• A review of technologies and associated pedagogy used to support Work-Based Learning in the region.
• Development of mobile portfolio/ blogging with asynchronous connection to Web-based portfolios (in collaboration with CETL4HealthNE)
• Establish a regional hub for postgraduate training
• Embedding the transfer of real data from undergraduate to postgraduate ePortfolio
• Transferring real ePortfolio data between FE and HE, and working with the JISC ComPort project
• Producing ePortfolio exemplars using different identity management schemes
• Engaging with emerging specifications and standards
• Evaluation of case studies and overall project

Anticipated outputs and outcomes

• Regional Forum events and national dissemination
• A review of technologies to support Work-Based Learning
• Case studies of pilots to support personalised learning pathways
• Regional hub for postgraduate training programmes
• Updated version of the ePET portfolio to be available to the UKFE/HE community
• Evaluation report
• Final project report.

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