EPICS and Beyond…

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ePET portfolio

EPICS and Beyond…EPICS and Beyond…

Simon CotterillSchool of Medical Education DevelopmentUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

ePET portfoliohttp://www.eportfolios.ac.uk

EPICS Regional ePortfoliohttp://www.epics.ac.uk

CETL4HealthNEhttp://www.cetl4healthne.ac.uk

JISCJISC


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Background: Background: Personal Development Planning (PDP)Personal Development Planning (PDP)

SST (Student Support & Tutoring)

ePortfolios• FDTL-4 project• PDP in curriculum context• Evidencing outcomes• Less emphasis on the tutor model

1st Newcastle-Nottingham PARs project, 1998-2000

2nd Newcastle-Nottingham PARs project, 2000-02

Internet-PARs• 2 DfES funded projects • PDP focus• Based on the personal tutor model


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ePET PortfolioePET Portfolio(‘software to match your pedagogy’)(‘software to match your pedagogy’)

Select componentsfor your course(eg. CV, learning diary,SWOT, meetings etc)

Design new componentsfor your course-create proformas via simple Web forms.-or using Open Source software

Customise look-and feel, terminology and text

Specify Skill-sets/ Learning Outcomes

Build on core features, including:

• Content sharing – add formative comments & dialogue• Integrated action planning• Uploading files• Access policies to support assessment (if required)


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Speech therapy

Generic tools

Postgrad Research


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• ePortfolio Extensions Toolkit (ePET)• Involvement in 3 Regional ePortfolio pilots (FE & HE):

• EPICS (North East)• IAMSECT ‘Shibboleth’ single sign-on project

JISCJISC Projects Projects

Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Professional Education Professional Education (CETL4HealthNE)(CETL4HealthNE)

ePortfolio support for a number of strandsin a HEFCE funded CETL in Health (North East)

Recent projects Recent projects • Building on 3 collaborative projects (FDTL-4 & DEFS)• FDTL Transferability (ePortfolios @ St George’s)• Dental ePortfolios Consortium• Postgraduate & CRS (University-wide, Newcastle)• A number of other collaborative projects


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ePET – Interoperability Project

• Funded as part of the Funded as part of the JISCJISC DEL DEL programmeprogramme

• http://www.eportfolios.ac.uk/ePEThttp://www.eportfolios.ac.uk/ePETAims:Aims:

• Consolidate and document the ‘generic’ Consolidate and document the ‘generic’ ePortfolio and make it freely available to the ePortfolio and make it freely available to the JISC community.JISC community.

• Develop a standards compliant Web Services Develop a standards compliant Web Services interface to the ePortfolio.interface to the ePortfolio.


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- ePET has been designed so that it has the - ePET has been designed so that it has the potential to support a range of different potential to support a range of different specifications e.g.specifications e.g.

Learner Information Package (LIP)

UK Learner ProfileEnterprise / Content PackagingePortfolio (early stage of

development)

-Dictionaries can be created for different -Dictionaries can be created for different specifications. specifications.

-New portfolio tools created by third party -New portfolio tools created by third party developers can mapped to the dictionary(s) developers can mapped to the dictionary(s)


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ePET – RESTian Approach

• Using REpresentational State Transfer Using REpresentational State Transfer (REST) which is:(REST) which is:– is an architectural style for large-scale is an architectural style for large-scale

software design (Roy Fielding, 2000).software design (Roy Fielding, 2000).

– uses a small, globally defined set of uses a small, globally defined set of HttpHttp Methods: (GET and POST, and secondarily Methods: (GET and POST, and secondarily PUT, DELETE, etc)PUT, DELETE, etc)

– Unique resourse identifiers (URIs) for both Unique resourse identifiers (URIs) for both

artifact-resources as well as distinct artifact-resources as well as distinct application-states application-states


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ePET – RESTian Approach #2– explicit rather than implicit explicit rather than implicit – uses hyperlinks as the "engine" of uses hyperlinks as the "engine" of

application-state transitions: application-state transitions:

URI = /epet/URI = /epet/schemescheme/component/-/component/-parametersparameters

/epet//epet/LIP1LIP1//allall/-/target_user-n1stu/-/target_user-n1stu

/epet//epet/LIP1LIP1//cvcv/-/target_user-n1stu/-/target_user-n1stuRequest Dictionary

Look-up‘Intermediate’

LIPXLST>true LIP

Send XML(eg. via SSL)

EPICS - North East regional collaboration around e-portfolio progression pathways with illustrative studies

Part of the JISC Distributed e-Learning Programme.

Partners include: 5 HEIs FE colleges (OWL network) JISC Regional Centre

Case studies-demonstrate feasibility / scalability-supporting life-long learning

http://www.epics.ac.uk

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/


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EPICS Overview

• PedagogyPedagogy– established a Regional Forum for PDPestablished a Regional Forum for PDP

• Governance Governance – developed ‘5Ps’ model for analysing policy, developed ‘5Ps’ model for analysing policy,

practice etc.practice etc.

• Technical Technical – 5 case studies – interoperability FE/HE5 case studies – interoperability FE/HE– Shibboleth – single sign-onShibboleth – single sign-on


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EPICS Interoperability

XML-RPC Request

IMS XML Returned Database

Insert

ePET 2 ePET 1

Validation

Case study (FE -> HE)

• Student initiated transfer

• IMS LIP via XML-RPC feed

• Currently via remote login -soon authentication c/o Shibboleth single sign-on


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ePET -> Blackboard Portfolio• ePET export Zip (IMS-LIP)• Bb import Zip file• XSLT transform to HTML + files

Blackboard Portfolio -> ePET• Problematic: Bb little support for LIP ISP needs to standardise tags• Export to ZIP• Import into ePET as files +some XSLT where IMS LIP tags have been used


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Continuity in life-long learning learningContinuity in life-long learning learning

School School HE HE Continuing Development Continuing Development

• Explicit recognition of prior learning• Focus on continuous development, not episodic learning

Integration with the wider MLEIntegration with the wider MLE

Educational Benefits of InteroperabilityEducational Benefits of Interoperability

Life-long ‘personal learning space’Serial transfer of data Aggregators of multiple portfolios / blogs

Alternativemodels

• Portfolio learning triggered by events in the VLE / MLE• Integration with other systems

eg. portfolio record generated by admin systems after attending a workshop = prompt for reflection


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WorkshopBookingSystem

Portfolio

Event-driven data transfere.g. Postgraduate Research Students (Newcastle University)

Workshop attendance is confirmed by an administrator.

This initiates secure transfer of course attendance record(s) to the ePET portfolio (IMS LIP).

Learner(s) choose to accept therecord and can add additionalpersonal reflective notes, cross-references etc.


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JISC – SURF Meeting, Nottingham 2006

ePortfolios 2004

Evaluating the use of hand-held computers to access electronic portfolios and clinical guidelines in a wireless environment for undergraduate medical education

Cotterill SJ, Jones S, Walters RA, Horner P, Moss JD, McDonald AM On behalf of the CETL4HealthNE

Pilot with 31 students started March 2006


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Further information:Further information: http://www.eportfolios.ac.uk

[email protected]

Cotterill SJ., McDonald AM., Drummond P., Hammond GR. Design, implementation and evaluation of a ‘generic’ e-portfolio: the Newcastle experience (ePortfolios 2004, La Rochelle)

Paper available at:http://www.eportfolios.ac.uk

Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Professional EducationProfessional Education (CETL4HealthNE) (CETL4HealthNE)

http://www.cetl4healthne.ac.uk

Director: Prof. Geoff [email protected]

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