Slides from the 9 July 2009 online event in Elluminate. Two breakout sessions to facilitate a speed networking process for the Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development research projects in the JISC funded Institutional Innovation/ LLLWFD programme. Attended online by 28 participants.

1. Welcome to Breakout session for
LLLWFD projects - Making connections
Online event : 9 July 2009
Presenting projects:
HELLO
TELSTAR
ePPSME
Co-genT
WELL

2. HELLO
Lucy Stone
Leicester College

3. The HELLO project
• Higher Education Lifelong Learning Opportunities
• To enable students to build networks of communication,
support and mentoring with peers, tutors, businesses
and other HE institutions
• http://hello.lec.ac.uk
• Project would like to make contact with other projects
around the following topic/s
– Use of Moodle and Mahara
– Support work based learners
– Engaging employers
• Contact:
Lucy Stone
lstone@lec.ac.uk
0116 2242047

4. TELSTAR
Beverley Leeds & Amy Wright
Lancashire Business School

5. Technology Enhanced Support for
Learning & Training Accreditation
Recognition Project
The overall aim is to provide Contact Centre employers,
employees and learning providers in the region with a
learning framework and web portal including technology
enabled systems and processes to assess, accredit and
support business focused learning opportunities.

6. The specific objectives of TELSTAR
are to:
– Design and develop an online Learning Framework
– Design and develop a Knowledge, Skills and
Competencies Audit tool
– Design and develop an Accreditation of Prior Learning
Expert System
– Implement an ePortfolio, reflective learning journal
and CV builder
– Supply online learning support materials
– Provide a learning community that offers an online
social network
– Design and develop a Credit Recognition expert
system
– Implement a web portal

7. TELSTAR would like to make contact with other
projects around the following topics
– Employer Engagement
– Accredited Prior Learning (Experiential & Credited)
– Negotiated Learning
– Credit Recognition of Employers Training
– E-portfolios
AYWright@uclan.ac.uk
01772 89 4698
www.telstarproject.ning.com

8. Alison Felce
University of Wolverhampton
Institute for Learning Enhancement

9. • Dev eloping an e-Portfolio based
Pedagogy for SMEs
• Main project goals:
– Addressing specific needs of SME based
learners
– Bespoke e-portfolio based curricula
– Range of work-based learning modules
within flexible accreditation framework

10. • Contact with other projects around:
– E-portfolio use / PebblePad
– Culture change
– Negotiated / personalised learning
– Learner support (mentoring, on-line)
• Contact person for assembly interest:
– Alison Felce, a.e.felce@wlv.ac.uk, 01902
322361

11. Co-genT:
Co-generative Toolkit
Phil Gravestock
University of Gloucestershire

12. The project
Lead site:
• University of Gloucestershire
Partners:
• University of Winchester
• Western Vocational Lifelong Learning
Network
• Pebble Learning

13. The project
Aim:
• To support the co-generation of demand-
led curriculum development
Builds on:
• Developments at the University of
Gloucestershire, e.g. the Gloucestershire
Framework for Personal and Professional
Development

14. Would like to make contact...
• ...with other project teams who have an
interest in the vocabulary used by higher
education and employers.

15. Contact details
Project website:
http://
resources.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/projects/cogent
/
Contact (at assembly):
Phil Gravestock
pgravestock@glos.ac.uk
01242 714626

16. Workforce Engagement in
Lifelong Learning (WELL)
Ibrar Butt / Vicki Illingworth
University of Bradford

17. WELL
• Will create a flexible model of module/unit delivery that:
– can be used on any academic programme
– fits around employer and student needs rather than
institutional timeframes and structures
– encourages greater participation from learners in
employment in a range of industries and business sectors
• Project would like to make contact with other projects
around the following topic/s
– APL and accreditation of employers in-house training
– Culture change from F/T UG to part-time work-based
learning
– Flexible curriculum delivery (e.g. Shell framework)

18. WELL
Contact:
Ibrar Butt, Project Officer
01274 235638
i.butt@bradford.ac.uk
Escalate
University of Bradford
F34 Richmond Building
Richmond Road
Bradford BD7 1DP

19. TELSTAR WELL
– Leicester
Employer Engagement - APL and
– Use of Moodle and
- Accredited Prior Learning accreditation of
Mahara
(Experiential & Credited) employers in-house
– Support work based training
learners - Negotiated Learning
- Credit Recognition of - Culture change
– Engaging employers from F/T UG to part-
Employers Training
Lucy Stone -E-portfolios time work-based
lstone@lec.ac.uk learning
Amy Wright
0116 2242047 AYWright@uclan.ac.uk - Flexible curriculum
http://hello.lec.ac.uk 01772 89 4770 delivery (e.g. Shell
ePPPSME www.telstarproject.ning.com framework)
Ibrar Butt - Bradford 01274
-E-portfolio use / PebblePad 235638
-Culture change Summary slide from i.butt@bradford.ac.uk
-Negotiated / personalised sessions
learning
-Learner support Co-gentT
(mentoring, on-line) Co-generation of demand-led curriculum development /
Alison Felce, PPD
a.e.felce@wlv.ac.uk, Phil Gravestock
01902 322361 http://resources.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/projects/cogent/
pgravestock@glos.ac.uk
01242 714626