Identity Management Services for Thin e-Portfolio

Recovering, Constructing and Presenting learner identity within

regional partnerships

Peter Rees Jones JISC-CETIS

Background: spotting the gaps

• The JISC Portfolio, Course Information and Course Validation Reference Models provide key resources for a service oriented “Web 2.0” approach

• Portfolio focused on the linear process by which a learner moves from college to university

• But an initial focus for JISC and Becta is the delivery of lifewide learning in regional projects, for example 14 -19 Specialised Diploma

• What are the gaps in provision the lifewide process that require identity management services?

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1.Personal Statement Service Loop

Pattern

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DecisionWS 3

Repeat Loop

Discovery Process (XCRI)

2. Summative Assessment of Personal Statement within the

selection / recruitment process (to be specified by

professional admissions staff)

Formative Development of Personal Statement

Decision

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Induction: Formative re-factoring of

Personal Statement

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Abstract Model of a Personal Profiling Service

IAG

A Linear Process:From CollegeTo University

Regional PerspectiveSchool

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Training Provider

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FE College

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Employment

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Regional Projects are supporting transitions from one stage of education to another and into employment: “Lifelong Learning”

They are also supporting simultaneous “lifewide” learning, for example in a college and employment

How may the process of applying to HE look to me if I left college aged 17, have worked for a couple of years but now want to apply?

Scenario Planning: Delivery

• First: to recover reference information about the learner for the learner

• which enable the learner to construct a profile of him/herself

• Second; to help the learner integrate what s/he is learning simultaneously in different contexts

• which enable the learner to develop their profile to meet new goals and challenges

This scenario requires the delivery of Identity Management Services:

The Delivery Scenario

• I Ieft college after 3 months aged 17

• 7 years on my prospects are worse than my friends who got a skill or went to university

• My union rep tells me that the Lifelong Learning Network (LLN) can help me apply to HE.

• In Nottingham 3,500 school students use an e-Portfolio

• 10,000 school & college students will use the PassPortfolio in 2006 / 07

LLN PartnershipePortfolio

XCRICourse Entry Profiles & links

to other resources

Structured Personal

StatementTemplate

Record of Advice & Guidance

Discovery Service

College e-Portfolio

Repository

Workplace HR

System

School e-Portfolio

repository

1.

Assemble Personal

Statement

Advice & Guidance

APPLY

Regional Partnership ID ServicesThe Scenario:

1. My union Rep tells me that the LLN can help me apply to HE. I meet an advisor who shows me how to use the Partnership e-Portfolio: we discover a suitable course and download the template.

How do I get from the initial meeting with an advisor to

APPLY?

Course Entry Profile

Course entry requirement

Course entry requirement

Integrative statement

A JISC get Entry Profile web service will be available in December

Regional Partnership ID ServicesThe Scenario:

2. I link stuff in my PassPortfolio into the application but what I really need to do first is find out about my old exam results!

PART SOLUTION The Framework for Achievement will provide an on line transcript linked to course information accessed by ULN articulated with HE entry requirements.

Student Personal ePortfolioCourse Entry Profile

Presentational ePortfolioCourse entry requirement

Course entry requirement

Assertion Activity

Assertion Activity

Web Service 1WS 2

Self evaluation

Integrative statement

LLN PartnershipePortfolio

XCRICourse Entry Profiles & links

to other resources

Structured Personal

StatementTemplate

Record of Advice & Guidance

Discovery Service

Profiling ServiceCollege e-Portfolio

Repository

Workplace HR

System

Framework For

Achievement

1.

2.

Assemble Personal

Statement

Advice & Guidance

APPLY

Regional Partnership ID ServicesThe Scenario:

2a. I link to an old project in my PassPortfolio but I also need to link in some of the technical drawings I did for my employer (another JISC web service is available in December)

PART SOLUTION we need an ID service within the partnership to link in this data

ISSUE do employers use educational standard practice to realise this i.e. Shibboleth?

LLN PartnershipePortfolio

XCRICourse Entry Profiles & links

to other resources

Structured Personal

StatementTemplate

Record of Advice & Guidance

Discovery Service

Profiling ServiceCollege e-Portfolio

Repository

Workplace HR

System

Framework For

Achievement

1.

2.

Assemble Personal

Statement

Advice & Guidance

APPLYStudent Personal ePortfolioCourse Entry Profile

Presentational ePortfolioCourse entry requirement

Course entry requirement

Assertion Activity Evidence

Assertion Activity

Web Service 1WS 2

Web Service 3

Self evaluation

Integrative statement

Regional Partnership ID Services

LLN PartnershipePortfolio

XCRICourse Entry Profiles & links

to other resources

Structured Personal

StatementTemplate

Record of Advice & Guidance

Discovery Service

Profiling ServiceCollege e-Portfolio

Repository

Workplace HR

System

Framework For

Achievement

1.

2.

4.

3.

Assemble Personal

Statement

Advice & Guidance

Advice & Guidance

APPLY

The Scenario:1. My union Rep tells me that

the LLN can help me apply to HE. I meet an advisor who shows me how to use the Partnership e-Portfolio: we discover a suitable course and download the template.

2. I use the Profiling Service to recover information from my old portfolios and develop a profile of myself in terms of the entry requirements application

3. My advisor and I chat online on how I can improve the application.

4. I apply! To an HEI 1 day a week + Parity to catch up on some key math.I’m going to need ID services to integrate all this stuff in my developing profileand to review the same thing in different ways for different stakeholders.