The document outlines the development of an electronic individual learning plan (eILP) to replace traditional paper-based ILPs, detailing stages from initial assessment to course reviews. It emphasizes the benefits of an online, interactive, and dynamic format accessible to learners, tutors, and managers, while highlighting current challenges with the implementation. Feedback is requested regarding the title and format of the proposal.

1. Recognising And Recording
Progress and Achievement:
The development of an electronic
Individual Learning Plan (eILP)

2. RARPA – an overview
• Stage 1 – Aims: can be individual or for the whole group
• Stage 2 – Initial assessment: to establish the learner’s starting point
• Stage 3 – Learning objectives: setting of challenging individualised targets
• Stage 4 – On-course reviews: tutor feedback & learner reflection
• Stage 5 – End-of-course review: bringing together evidence of progress

3. ILP – What do we use now?
• Paper-based: Word document, printed out and filled in by hand
• Static: seen by tutors and learners as an irritating piece of paperwork
• Filed away: can only be in one place and because of its importance, it is kept
onsite, so learners can’t refer to it from home
• Labour intensive: when new course begins, admin staff have to pre-populate,
print and collate ILPs. At various stages, ILPs are collected in, scanned and
indexed. Managers are never sure if the latest version is current.

4. Plan for an eILP
• Online: either on VLE or separate website
• Interactive: links to calendar and portfolio of evidence
• Dynamic: can be accessed, updated and viewed by all parties at any time
• Guided process: more support for writing SMART targets
• Access rights: only the learner, tutor and area manager can view it

5. Innovation
The act of making changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products.
• ILPs are established but going electronic/online is new for my organisation
• Learners currently have paper-based portfolios; making these electronic
would also be new
• VLE (in current form) is brand new and would provide ideal platform for
eILP (however Moodle ILPs seem to have bugs and this would put learners
and tutors off)
• I’ve done web building (html, css, php, mysql) but developing an eILP
website would stretch and challenge these skills

6. Format
I’m still working on this. It would be either:
• Multimedia presentation – if eILP is on VLE, I could take screen shots and
use this to show it as a presentation of some kind.
• Activity/workshop – if I make a standalone website, conference participants
could register and create their own eILP, thus working through the process
that learners would do.

7. Feedback
Please give me some feedback. I am particularly doubtful (at the moment)
about:
• The title
• The format