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Supporting Lifelong Learners in the North West

Supporting Lifelong Learners in the North West. SOLVS Supporting Ongoing Learning in Vocational Settings Garfield Southall, Project Manager Director, NTI, University of Chester. Who is involved. The 3 Lifelong Learning Networks in the Northwest Cheshire & Warrington Greater Manchester

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Supporting Lifelong Learners in the North West

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  1. Supporting Lifelong Learners in the North West SOLVSSupporting Ongoing Learning in Vocational Settings Garfield Southall, Project ManagerDirector, NTI, University of Chester

  2. Who is involved • The 3 Lifelong Learning Networks in the Northwest • Cheshire & Warrington • Greater Manchester • Greater Merseyside & West Lancs • 9 HEIs and 43 FECs in these partnerships • Phosphorix ltd (SHELL, Learning Matrix, EELLS, PDP4Life)

  3. Project team • Garfield Southall (University of Chester) • Roger Clark (The Learning Matrix, Project Manager IoNW2) • Gill Scott (GMSA) • Selwyn Lloyd (Phosphorix) • Other credits: • Mark Stubbs, Janet Strivens, Simon Grant, Sandra Kingston, Mark Barrett Baxendale

  4. What’s the problem? • Supporting employed learners with cross institutional learning paths • Help them to make appropriate choices sensitive to sector needs and requirements (PDP) • Allow them to browse and search learning opportunities from multiple institutions • Simplify application processes • Tracking for multi-institutional awards

  5. The plan • Project work is embedded into the operational strategies of the LLNs • There are two projects with complementary focus • Interoperability Network NorthWest ioNW2 (led by MMU) • Supporting Ongoing Learning in Vocational Settings SOLVS (led by University of Chester)

  6. SOLVS • Learner focussed project • Learner portals in two vocational sectors- Creative Industries and- Health and Social Services • Focus on PDP • Flexible tools for creating pluggable, shareable, PDP activities tailored to vocational sector needs • IAG and multi-institution course search • e-Portfolio for application to courses

  7. Technology approach • Building on the Learning Matrix work, which built on SHELL • Web-services based ioPortal with ePortfolio and “social” software elements • ioNetwork components • Course information system built on XCRI • Refine and adapt • Work synergistically with other projects

  8. Workpackages • Develop a set of tools capable of creating vocation specific PDP activity cycles • Trial ePortfolio supported application process • Put in place learner portals supporting work-based learners in the two sectors • To make information about partner institutions’ courses available for aggregating in the learner portals • Monitoring of end-to-end use by LLNs of systems developed

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