Diverse Practice, Shared Representation: Leap2A for e-Portfolio Portability?

Diverse practice, shared representation: Leap2A for e-portfolio portability Simon Grant JISC CETIS

Tools?

Practices?

Information?

Previous practice … … current practice … … future practice

maximise the range of learner-owned information
from any past or present portfolio practice
available to other present or future portfolio practices
involving any suitable tools

conceive of the information in common terms transfer it using a common representation

Back to the idea of maximising … How did we attempt this for Leap2A?

Leap2A methodology
direct involvement of practice-informed portfolio systems developers
keeping things as simple as is reasonable, while not losing useful detail
bringing out and explicitly representing the different assumptions of different systems
accepting that 100% reuse is by nature not often possible

Leap2A specification
Think of a portfolio as a blog collection: items
say one thing or
describe one thing
may be linked to attached files as "resources"
Leap2A allows us to
say what kind of thing each item is
say how items are related
categorise them further

Leap2A types of item
entry
ability
achievement
activity
affiliation
meeting
organization
person
plan
publication
resource
selection

Leap2A relationships
Reflection e.g. entries reflecting on activities
Whole-part e.g. shorter activities within longer programmes
Support e.g. organization supporting activity
Evidence e.g. a resource evidencing an ability
Agenda, outcomes, attendance e.g. for meetings
Threads of conversation for entries and comments (already in Atom)

Leap2A categories
e.g.
SWOT
learning cycle (cf Kolb)
life area
user-defined tags

Leap2A lives at http://www.leapspecs.org/2A/ Thanks for your attention! Any questions?

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