presentation at the e-portfolio Scotland 2010 conference, QMU, 2010-09-10

1. Diverse practice, shared representation: Leap2A for e-portfolio portability Simon Grant JISC CETIS

2. Tools?

3. Practices?

4. Information?

5. Previous practice … … current practice … … future practice

7. from any past or present portfolio practice

8. available to other present or future portfolio practices

9. involving any suitable tools

10. conceive of the information in common terms transfer it using a common representation

11. Back to the idea of maximising … How did we attempt this for Leap2A?

13. keeping things as simple as is reasonable, while not losing useful detail

14. bringing out and explicitly representing the different assumptions of different systems

15. accepting that 100% reuse is by nature not often possible

17. describe one thing

19. say how items are related

20. categorise them further

22. achievement

23. activity

24. affiliation

26. person

27. plan

28. publication

29. resource

30. selection

32. Whole-part e.g. shorter activities within longer programmes

33. Support e.g. organization supporting activity

34. Evidence e.g. a resource evidencing an ability

35. Agenda, outcomes, attendance e.g. for meetings

36. Threads of conversation for entries and comments (already in Atom)

38. learning cycle (cf Kolb)

39. life area

40. user-defined tags

41. Leap2A lives at http://www.leapspecs.org/2A/ Thanks for your attention! Any questions?