This is an old presentation about a potential new eilp system developed at South Devon College. It is now called Leap and is AVAILABLE at http://leap-ilp.com

1. eilp at South Devon College
Kevin Hughes
South Devon College
February 9, 2011

2. eilp
Our current eilp
Three years ago, South Devon College decided to develop a
bespoke in-house eilp system.
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

3. Features
It shows personal details:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

4. Features
It does reviews:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

5. Features
It does timetabling:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

6. Features
It does target-setting:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

7. Features
It does application profiles:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

8. Features
It tracks attendance:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

9. Features
It tracks attendance:
and, it automatically calculates EMA decisions and notifies
students via email.
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

10. Features
It handles support requests and strategies:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

11. Features
And it does other stuff: With cool bonus features:
Course lists Direct integration with MIS
Absence reason reporting Real time data
(with notification to staff). No maintenance or setupa
Qualification on Entry a
Once you’ve got it set up!
collection
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

12. Some statistics
Reviews 21,483
Comments 80,311
Learners 7,797
Targets 29,440
Support Plans: 1,688
Application Profiles 1,455
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

13. Some statistics
During the Autumn Term there were:
230,823
stakeholder connections to the system.
This includes staff, student and parent logins.
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

14. Problems
What’s wrong with the eilp?
User interface
Data structure issues
Scope creep and (therefore loss of focus)
It’s a victim of it’s own success
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

15. Problems
We should be focusing on the learner experience
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

16. Target Setting
Problem
We want learners to autonomously write perfect SMART targets
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

17. Target Setting
Problem
We want learners to autonomously write perfect SMART targets
but that’s not realistic.
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

18. Target Setting
Problem
We want learners to autonomously write perfect SMART targets
but that’s not realistic.
Solution
So let’s give them a place to record stuff and we’ll turn them into
targets when we can!
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

19. Abstraction!
What do we track? What would we like to track?
Reviews Progression
Targets Unit Achievement
Applications Assignments
Enrolments Contact
Support Requests Discipline
Attendances stuff!
Qualifications
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

20. Abstraction!
What do we track? What would we like to track?
Reviews Progression
Targets Unit Achievement
Applications Assignments
Enrolments Contact
Support Requests Discipline
Attendances stuff!
Qualifications
Timestamped personal data!
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

21. Events
A view of where the learner is...
..showing all that timestaped personal data.
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

22. Events
Let the learner set targets linked to that data:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

23. Events
And we can apply a consistent user interface to everything:
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

24. Student Home
Lets give the learner an overview of how they’re doing
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

25. Student Home
Lets give the learner an overview of how they’re doing
Could we do a staff home along the same lines?
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

26. Development
Problem
The eilp is a bespoke system and all development resets on the
shoulders of one person.
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

27. Development
Problem
The eilp is a bespoke system and all development resets on the
shoulders of one person.
Solution
The new eilp will be made available to everyone under an open
source license and we will positively encourage participation of
other institutions at all levels.
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College

28. Thanks for listening!
If I’ve got time, at this point, I’ll do a quick demo of some early
work with the whole event thing!
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take
this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the
problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper.
http://ilp.posterous.com
khughes@southdevon.ac.uk
@kevtufc
Kevin Hughes South Devon College
eilp at South Devon College