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Personal Development Planning

(PDP)/ePortfolio: What are we talking

about?

by

Dr Charles Juwah

Department for the Enhancement ofLearning, Teaching and Assessment

RGU:DELTA

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Content

Personal Development Planning (PDP):What is it?

Why PDP?

Providing the framework to ensure effective

student engagement in learning anddevelopment.

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Outcomes

Appraise and discuss the importance andprocess of Personal Development Planning

(PDP).

Use PDP and ePortfolio to support the

development of relevant knowledge, skills,

competencies.

Justify the role of PDP in enhancing

employability (or employment skills).

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What is Personal Development

Planning (PDP)?

Personal development planning (PDP) is defined

as 'a structured and supported process

undertaken by an individual to reflect upon theirown learning, performance and/or achievement

and to plan for their personal, educational and

career development'.

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What is Personal Development

Planning (PDP)?

PDP embraces a range of approaches to learning

that connect:

planning (an individual's goals and intentions forlearning or achievement),

doing (aligning actions to intentions),

recording (thoughts, ideas, experiences, in order

to understand and evidence the process andresults of learning) and

reflection (reviewing and evaluating experiences

and the results of learning) (HEA 2008).

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Why PDP?

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PDP

Academic: Developing knowledge, skills,abilities and competences

- Working Portfolio of Students Artefacts

- Assessment

- Develop reflection

- Supporting personal/professional development

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PDP

- Repository of artefacts

- Evidencing progression of learning andachievement (of the intended, outcomes,

competencies, etc.): a basis for accreditation of prior learning. it can also serves as a transcript

- Resource for planning a CV

- Showcasing and presentation of evidence ofachievement

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Benefits of PDP

PDP process will enable you to:

become more self aware of their learning

needs; identify opportunities for learning and

developing new skills outwith the curriculum;

identify their strengths and weaknesses and

to devise ways by which to improve on them;

develop skills and capabilities that arerelevant for employment;

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Benefits of PDP

PDP process will enable you to:

make the link between teaching, learningand assessment and to take ownership ofyour learning;

be more effective in monitoring andreviewing your progress;

record in a more structured way youracademic achievement and career-relatedcapabilities;

enhance your continuing professionaldevelopment

become autonomous lifelong learner.

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Benefits of PDP

Enables feedback and support to be providedaround your learning needs by:

peers

tutors

mentors

supervisors

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What is involved inPDP?

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Stages of PDP

Profiling

Setting outcomes and learning objectives

Planning and Doing

Assessment

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Stages of PDP

Feedback

Action planning

Evidencing and recording achievement

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What can I use to

support my PDP?

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Types of PDP

Paper based PDP

Electronic PDP (ePDP) -

http://eportfolio.rgu.ac.ukOR

IP Address:http://193.63.235.23

http://eportfolio.rgu.ac.uk/http://193.63.235.23/http://193.63.235.23/http://eportfolio.rgu.ac.uk/

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ePortfolio

Global Profile

Create a global profile:

- Name- Password- Status- Location

* Complete boxes with asterisk

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ePortfolio

Tour of the site:

Provides information on the various

sections of the ePortfolio

Hovering over each icon providesrelevant information on that section ofthe ePortfolio

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ePortfolio

Sections of theePortfolio:

Profile/Skills Audit

Learning Style Learning Agreement Outcome (s)/

Objective (s) Planning and Doing Learning (Formal,

informal, individualor group based)

Sections of theePortfolio:

Learning/Reflective

Journal (Review) Assessment Feedback Action Planning Evidencing learning Career Dev CV

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ePortfolio

Uploading Files to the ePortfolio

You can upload a range of files:- Word

- Audio- Graphics- Images- Moving images: streamed video- ASCII- Excel or Access

* You are restricted to 20MB

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ePortfolio

Private and Public Spaces

Your ePortfolio is private

However, you may wish to make any or allsections of your portfolio to specificindividuals (e.g. tutor/mentor/coach or

fellow students, etc.)

You can grant individuals access to anysection of your portfolio by inserting their

names in the relevant fields

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ePortfolio

Calendar Management

Manage your activities using thecalendar

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What next?

Activity 1

Now that you have familiarised yourself withthe PDP process and the ePortfolio tool, pleasecomplete the following:

Produce a profile of your knowledge, skills and competencespertaining to teaching using the skills audit proforma or theSWOT analysis approach.

Use the Learning Style Questionnaire to produce a profile ofyour preferred learning style.

Note.Please share your skills profile and output of your learningstyle test with your mentor and tutor.

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Contact

Dr Charles Juwah

Department for the Enhancement of Learning,Teaching and Assessment

St Andrew St BuildingAberdeen

AB25 1HG

Tel 01224 263346

e-mail: c.juwah@rgu.ac.uk

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Further Reading COTTRELL, S., 2003. Chapters 1 and 2, Skills for Success: The

Personal Development Planning Handbook. Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillan.

STRIVEN, J., 2008. Chapter 1, Report on Personal Development

Planning. Higher Education Academy [online] Available from:

www.heacademy.ac.uk/pdp(Accessed 14 December 2008)

CENTRE FOR RECORDING ACHIEVEMENT (CRA)http://wwwrecordingachievement.org

NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY INTO HIGHER EDUCATION,1997. Higher Education in the Learning Society, Report of theNational Committee (The Dearing Report) [online] Available from:http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncihe/nr_139.htm

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/pdphttp://wwwrecordingachievement.org/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncihe/nr_139.htmhttp://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncihe/nr_139.htmhttp://wwwrecordingachievement.org/http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/pdp

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References

HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY (HEA), 2008. PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (PDP) -http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/pdp/htmhttp://www. heacademy.ac.uk/PDP-UK-NETWORK.htm

HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY, 2006. Student Employability Profiles.The Higher Education Academy September 2006. ISBN 1-905788-

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QUALITY ASSURANCE AGENCY , 2000. Guidelines for the progressfiles [online] Available from:http://www.qaa.ac.uk/crntwork/progfileHE/guidelines/guideline.pdf

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/pdp/htmhttp://www.heacademy.ac.uk/pdp/htm