Piloting e ILPS in ACL consortium presentation at e-factor 2013 RSC London

2. Project brief
• Increasing use of Moodle - exploring
the potential of eILPs
• Feedback from tutor and learner
• Engage with Art & Design –
• identified as a particularly difficult
area to engage with technology
• Involve a range of adult educational
institutions

3. Project Strategies
Strategy - a high level plan to achieve one or
more goals under conditions of uncertainty
A range of strategies were adopted, including:-
 100% use of the eILP;
 a hybrid approach using 50% paper-based and
50% electronic ILPs;
 eILPs; Learner Journal or Reflections
 eILPs inside and outside the classroom
 the reflective nature of the eILP

4. The line up

5. Project participants
Philip Butler, ULCC developed the original project concept
PARTICIPATING COLLEGES
Morley College Lead (Laurence) Cass Breen (Project sponsor)
Adult Education College Bexley (Janet)
Croydon Adult Learning & Training (CALAT) (Wendy)
NALS Newham (Farhad)
Working Men's College (Gillian)
ADVISORS
JISC RSC London Organisational support, Martin Sepion
LSIS Associate, Victor Dejean

6. Forming, Storming, Norming
– team development
The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather
than each other. —Thomas Stallkamp

7. Building the project
Agree the main and associated purposes of the
project
Brainstorm ideas and suggestions
Project co-ordinator/agreed roles of
participants
Take control of the project delivery
Assess/analyse results
Agree action and timescale
Control and monitor follow-up
Post project collaboration

8. “
Online collaboration at start
Two face-to-face training
workshops hosted by CityLit,
delivered by lead trainer Phil
George
Feedback from the F2F training
Setting out our own training
requirements
 CALAT eILPs
 AECB Xerte
 Westminster iPads
I believe in training as long as it doesn't take
me or my staff away from "important" tasks
that must get done”

9. for the teacher
“While iPads are engaging, technology
needs to be — above everything else — in
the service of learning. Administrators who
fail to articulate the connection between
iPads and learning often hamper their iPad
initiative.”
http://www.teachersmonthly.com/5-critical-mistakes-schools-make-
with-ipads-and-how-to-correct-them

10. • Email
• Google Drive
• Meetomatic response
• Face to face, group, practitioner, steering
group, training
• Blog post on the LSIS eILP project
• Moodle forums/ULCC
• Morley VLE/Moodle
• Telephone
“Communication works for
those who work at it”.
John Powell

11. “Aw, people can come up
with statistics to prove
anything, Kent. 40% of all
people know that.”
- Homer Simpson : "Homer the Vigilante"

12. Benchmarking electronic
questionnaires
• 56 learner responses (January)
• 11 practitioner responses (January)
• 70 learner responses (June)
• 8 practitioner responses (June)
Our data – quantitative & qualitative

13. Forming, Storming, Norming –
Project Steering Group Meetings
No matter what
time it is, wake
me, even if it's in
the middle of a
Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

14. Project Steering Group Meetings
Advantages:-
 Involvement
 Motivation
 Good will
 Present and future
collaboration
Disadvantages:-
 Travel
 Time away from the workplace

15. Collaboration and learning
through reflection
“The features don’t matter. It’s all
about the outcomes. What can people
do with your software?”

16. What the learners said……
“A waste of our time. When we are
supposed to be making our
projects. need to be able to write
down comments as we go along.
Impractical to expect us to do it at
home, some people don't have
time or don't have a computer.”
“I love Moodle. I very much appreciate
the facility to upload photographs,
although I found it a little difficult to
begin with as the PC is not as intuitive as
is the Mac. OK now. With regard to the
Individual Learning Plan, I found it
difficult to find my tutor's comment
because the "Comment" button was dark
and not easily seen.”
“Its much easier to
do the e ILP online
rather than writing
down on the
paper.”
Moodle is very good. Easy access
to course assignments, info and
handouts all in one place. Social
networking with the rest of the
class
Sorry, but I am too old to
find the LP exciting. It is
time consuming and yet
another job to do, chaining
you to the computer!

17. I feel it benefited the majority
of the learners but not all.
Some were resentful of
having to spend more time
on eILPs than they did filling
out the paper versions
Lucy Winter,
AECB
For any non accredited
course I would say that
the ILP helps quite a
lot to monitor students
achievement and also
helps them quite a lot
to reflect on their own
achievement
Christiane Franz
NALS/NEWHAM
What the tutors said…….
I now feel that there
is a place for
Moodle in teaching
and supporting
learners but I am
not sure it will ever
be the main support
tool
Kim Lucas,
CALAT
To me, the usefulness
of the eILP is that it is
an interactive
document that can be
started in class, then
developed throughout
the course
Anyway, I am a bit
of a convert now to
the eILP as they
are easy to access
as a tutor and I like
being able to open
a dialogue with my
students regarding
their work and
progress
Gillian Burton,
WMC
Fay Hoolahan,
Morley

18. “When shall we three meet
again …”
• Regular contact beyond the lifetime
of the initial funded project
• Review the impact of the project over
a more extended period - an end-line
survey Summer term 2013
• End of Project Exhibition – Reflective
dialogues
• Project Case Study - Excellence
Gateway

19. “Now this is not the end. It is not even
the beginning of the end. But it is,
perhaps, the end of the beginning”
Winston Churchill
However, for me, the most
rewarding aspect of this
venture was the true spirit of
collaboration with which we
concluded the project.
Martin Sepion, JISC RSC London

20. It is the long history
of humankind (and
animal kind, too)
those who learned
to collaborate and
improvise most
effectively have
prevailed.
Charles Darwin

21. “This telephone has too many
serious shortcomings to be
considered as a method of
communication” 1876
• Questions & Answers
• We welcome your thoughts
• We have included project delivery as well
as project deliverables
• The technology and the people using it