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Enhancing Transitions for Non-Traditional Learners Through a Collaborative Portal Project

The Personal Learning Portal Project, funded by the JISC, focuses on supporting non-traditional learners as they transition into higher education. This collaborative effort, led by the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University, leverages existing relationships with local institutions. By integrating study skills support material and an e-portfolio system from Oxford Brookes University, the project aims to improve learners' graduate skills, retention, and personal development planning. Ongoing initiatives include tracking students into higher education and developing shared online resources.

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Enhancing Transitions for Non-Traditional Learners Through a Collaborative Portal Project

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  1. Personal Learning Portal Project A Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) project with a focus on supporting transition for ‘non-traditional’ learners (on-going)

  2. So what is a portal? “portals bring relevant information together and provide access to this through a common point of access, an essential task in these days of ever increasing information overload” http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_portals

  3. Collaboration • No funding without collaboration! • University of Kent was a logical partner • Existing relationships • Shared client group of local ‘non-traditional’ learners • Oxford Brookes University had an e-portfolio system which JISC preferred us to use

  4. Setting Up the project • A group was formed between University of Kent and ourselves, meeting face-to- face • Working at a distance with Oxford Brookes • Mixture of technical and pedagogical knowledge in the group

  5. Preparation of People • Identifying student groups within local FE institutions to be involved in the project • Access to HE and Access to Health courses • South Kent College • Making contact with staff in ‘partner’ institutions to gain agreement

  6. Preparation of Portal • Gathering together of study skills support material with University of Kent • Familiarisation with e-portfolio tool from Oxford Brookes • Sorting out authentication and other technical bits!

  7. A Single Route to Resources

  8. PLP – e-Portfolio Tool

  9. Study Skills Evaluations and Materials • http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/plpp

  10. What did we do? • Invited relevant lecturers from South Kent College into CCCU for introduction to portal • Asked them to allocate timetable slots for introduction to student groups • Asked them to introduce the use of the Personal Development Planning facility during individual tutorials

  11. Potential Outcomes • too early to tell but hope they will be: • support of transition in terms of developing graduate skills • improve retention as learners ‘better’ prepared for HE • start of understanding the skills needed for personal development planning • improved achievement as a result of ‘better’ preparation

  12. Lessons learned • incorporation of untested technology (and working at a distance from originator) makes life hard • effective relationships between project team and FE lecturers is very important • it all takes longer than you think • delayed introduction to first groups probably effected engagement of both staff and students • embedding into programmes is essential

  13. The On-going Work • students are being ‘tracked’ into HE • Orientation Days are a direct result of the project as a ‘pay-back’ for the students • to develop an exit strategy • shared online resources available for everyone • further resources being developed to reflect graduate skills (rather than key skills)

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