 Felly, dyma'r ysgol, amdano'r rhagiau. Rwy'n ddweud gyda'r Llyfrgell ddechrau fel y Lleid yw yw'r projektaeth. Rwy'n ddweud yw'r llwyaf o'r ymdwys ymdwylliant? Felly, rwy'n ddaniau McSweeney o'r rwyf o'r Llyfrgell a Llyfrgell a Llyfrgell i'n blynd i'r ystod. Rwy'n ddaraf Castell, dyma'r Llyfrgell ar gyfer y Llyfrgell i'r gymhreibol ar gyfer y Llyfrgell? gyda bod rwy'n iawn a gen i'w ffordd irough am ymgyrch yn ein bod yng Nghyrchu Cymru ac mae'r gyfnodd hon i'w dweud y Cymru yn ymgyrch ar gyfer y ddefnyddio'r Pwg Ddweud. Ac mae'n bwysig, mae'n gyfanyddio'r hwn ar gyfer ymgyrch yn ymgyrch, ond mae'n ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch ar gyfer y cyffredinol ac yn ymgyrch ar gyfer y cyfrifol. Wrth gwrs, mae'n gilydd ymgyrch yn ymgyrch ar gyfer ymgyrch ar gyfer ymgyrch, ond nhw'n mirio'r gweithio fe chyfnodol ddylchedd, a customers' cael ei wneud o'r disig yn fath o'r Unifredig Unifredig Caerdydd. Mynd i ad珍wch y fyddir, mynd i adneud gwneud o'r bobl a'r newydd o'r dawn nebaf o'r birdloedd yn unrhyw gwirionedd. Mynd i'r holl yn hybrillau hybrill, oedd'n raddw i'r drafod a'r newid, oedd'n raddw i'r drafod a'r drafod a'r se pedwydol yn y dyfwylo sydd fydd yn lŵr, I suppose tools that can be used in a digital age to kind of change the curriculum and drive change overall. I suppose they're used to the most part to our VLEs, which tend to be used as panopticons. You can watch and observe the students whereas e-portfolios have the capacity to empower students to actually demonstrate how they themselves are meeting learning outcomes that we have printed or we've negotiated with them. We've also I suppose to date all have had minor experience with e-portfolios. It's tend to be anopt in at an individual level. We're looking at team implementation, which we hope will actually overcome that notion to the failure that's to date of implementing e-portfolios at scale across our colleges, okay? Overall I suppose we're looking at I suppose going beyond VLEs, going beyond tools and bringing into a whole new mentality around the notion of what a curriculum can be and what a programme for the future could be. To that end the project over six months will involve very much a ramping up of existing ideas and kind of the whole week that we plan around it would involve not just ourselves but perhaps even a national, we're hoping to expect to be a national e-portfolio forum, perhaps the first of an annual thing that might come down the line to us. I'm going to pass over to Daniel here who's got to talk around the whole notion of what we're going to do. Yeah so we've broken down the project into I suppose six months milestones. The first month we've called orientation consultation. It's really about establishing programme teams across different institutions. These teams will consist of academics, students, library or subject matter experts and perhaps learning technologists who are interested in the implementation and inclusion of e-portfolios into their curricula and programmes. What we're also hoping to do in month one is to engage or to second somebody into a full time coordinator role for the e-portfolio project and that person will commence with some desk based research which will start to look at international best practice and existing frameworks and case studies that can inform us as we commence to work with our teams. And all going well we'll start to initiate a survey process across the various Irish higher education institutes to try and assess their current levels of adoption and use of e-portfolio systems. Moving on then into month two what we're going to do in month two is place a particular emphasis on technologies and we'll start off by looking or working with our identified programme teams and run some workshops with them to maybe explore best practice case studies and in particular look at technologies in ways that they can implement e-portfolio systems in assessment and teaching on their programmes. We'll continue desk research and in month two we'll really start to look at the different technology solutions that are available for e-portfolio adoption. We're aware we've all used systems like Mahara and Pebblepad but we believe in some cases they've limited our adoption of e-portfolio systems and we're interested in looking at perhaps new or open source offerings that might allow us to mainstream e-portfolio use in the institutes. Month three is really about community and building and development and it's the month where we'll start to plan for hopefully a week-long forum on e-portfolio use and adoption. We're planning a treat the four-day event sometime in March all going well in which we bring together programme teams, academics, representatives from organisations who are looking to I suppose use e-portfolios in our curricula and to bring in international experts hopefully to submit and discuss case studies best practice and just to help inform and spread the word of the project. In month four what we're really planning to do there in that month is actually run the forum and in month four we'll promote the forum through the national forum and other channels and hopefully start to disseminate our early results in the project. We'll also begin in earnest to suppose development of our framework and documentation of our framework and begin to release aspects of that on a website so we can see by month three or by month four making a publicly available website which will discuss some of the work, some of the implementation across programme teams and some of the best practice that we're discovering. In month five we're looking really at consolidation and review which is basically to start to finalise our framework when it emphasis on how individual practitioners could adopt e-portfolio systems technology options that should be considered and how they can be adopted and how organisations might take on e-portfolio strategies across the curriculum. Then into month six what we're looking to then is to release our final version of our framework to hopefully then launch and run a continuing support mechanism. We have in mind some type of a CPD offering perhaps a MOOC style offering or a series of short courses or online seminars in which people who are interested in implementing or using e-portfolio systems moving forward can attend and engage with a CPD style offering and finally to look for ourselves to engage in some type of feedback and analysis of our own project work over the six month period. So I'll hand you over now to Dara, he'll talk a little bit more about how we're actually going to implement some of this. Just to make concrete what Daniel has spoken about, what are we actually going to produce? What will the outputs of this project be? An e-portfolio framework so that can be quite a nebulous term but our idea is that we will have clearly articulated ideas about e-portfolios, what they can be used for and how they can be used and how people learning technologies or the support staff can work with academics to help them embed the use of e-portfolios into their projects. We'll have a website where all these resources will be available part of that website will be a forum we would be hoping to generate communities of practice, have this as a central resource that people could come to when they're trying to institute e-portfolio projects within their own organisations. We have the e-portfolio event which Daniel has talked about and that would be very much about sharing practice, hearing about expertise from other countries but also from students who have used portfolios themselves and how they have found the value that they have found in using them. Similarly people who are teaching who have used portfolios and the value that they have found to encourage more widespread use of e-portfolios. Then structured training on a CPD MOOC. The website will also be in a sense a course or will provide access to a course that can be used, it can be delivered perhaps by us at the end of the process as a MOOC, although maybe oak because I don't know about massive, a small, a soup, or it can be delivered in individual institutions by as I said learning technologies, learning support people but they have all the tools they need there to deliver this CPD course to their staff to help them develop their e-portfolio capacity. So some of the principles behind that are informing the project, number one we're going to consult with a range of stakeholders so not only the learning technologies and the academics but also we feel students are very important because a lot of students are already doing a lot of e-portfolio type activities such as blogging, they may have LinkedIn profiles, they have a lot of things going on that they may not necessarily recognise as e-portfolio or linked to that so it's creating those kind of linkages to their existing practice. Also we think it would be useful to include employers, the employer voice as those consultations to get a sense of what are the skills that you are looking for from students of particular courses when they come to you looking for jobs. A problem that's been identified with students is it's often difficult for them to make the linkages between what they've done in their course of study and something that can be useful in an employment context so an e-portfolio is a very, because of the reflective nature of it, it offers a lot of scope while somebody is studying to really put all that learning into a context that can be very useful for them after they complete their course. That we will include students and support staff so it's not only academics that this project is targeting and that we will model e-portfolio approaches. This was something that we felt was important. It's a very much an iterative process. It starts with the equivalent of a personal development plan. It's our own identification of what it is we need to do, what the gaps are and reflection will be very much part of the process. So we envisage that throughout the process we will be reflecting on our programmes and what we've done but also blogging about it and that will be a very important both reflective tool but also a way of disseminating information about what we're doing and publicising it through the use of Twitter for example and in that way driving people to the website when it becomes available. And then the final one is to create clear pathways and easy to use resources. I think there is a lot of, there are a lot of resources out there in the holy portfolio space already. Jisk in particular has a range of resources that are very useful and would provide a very useful starting point for us. What we would like though is to have something in a way that has an element of prescription about it so if you are looking to actually implement this on the ground these are steps that you should take and we'll make templates available that can help with that process to enable this to be something that happens at scale so it's not just at the moment there are lots of pockets of innovation but this is something that if we have a more formalised approach it's possible to extend it to a wider audience perhaps than previously. Sorry my mouth is getting a bit dry. So one of the, there's two strands to this obviously there's using e-portfolios within courses and then there's a professional development of for example lecturers. I think Kevin's first slide had a quote about it's really only through using an e-portfolio that you really get to appreciate the value of an e-portfolio so if you have, it's one thing deciding okay all courses are going to have an e-portfolio component in them so your job as a lecturer is to put that make that component part of your course. The reality is unless you have your own e-portfolio and you've worked through the process that's involved you won't really get the most out you won't be in a position to integrate e-portfolio work into your courses in a meaningful way so our approach to getting lecturers and academics up to speed on e-portfolios is to have them develop their own e-portfolio so starting with their own personal development plan identifying what it is they need to achieve this integration that they're being asked to do and then working with them to help them to move them along that process so they get to finally that they have created a course that has a significant e-portfolio element they have their rubrics that they need to assess those portfolios and then they also have their own resources for their own e-portfolio and they have their reflective journey. This ties in very much with the professional development framework so the need for this portfolio approach is is is coming from from both from the student side and from the lecturer professional development aspect sorry am I talking to you? Okay so um we we have a detailed project plan which is available um if you're interested and see that we've broken down my words the structure is that we'll have a steering group and we will appoint a project coordinator and that's what we'll be using a lot of the funding for is to have somebody working full-time on this which will be very important and they will work with individuals and individual teams within the institutions and supported by the individual sorry individuals um yeah so for promotion we're looking at social media um that the website that we create and the resources and the CBD MOOC alternative are the and the national the e-portfolio week that we have talked about and uh one minute for the evaluation thank you very much obviously because it's an iterative process evaluation is integral to the success of the project so there's dimensions to this and the first level is the project aims and objectives how we could meet these and how we can be effective efficient in our working the second is the the work with the programs of the future we're identified project teams who are working with us um so they'll be very much a practitioner focus on that and the third level is is the uh the project deliverables and how we achieve that through um formative practitioner based research and this is about the e-portfolio systems and making informed choices about the use and support of e-portfolios but also about e-portfolio how how better they can be used um to support assessment and also professional personal development so we'll be looking at the drivers and enablers around about that levels of adoption etc and then finally the the needs around and about the use of e-portfolios and in particular um linking into that in terms of the innovative use of e-portfolios as something slightly different um in the first stage we're looking at what's already been done and uh what needs to be done um the mid project is by the development of the framework and the selection process and use of of portfolios how can we do this how can we do it better and more effectively and working with the stakeholder groups and at the end of the project it's more about the sustainability and the support into the future once uh as part of the legacy project it's a number of ways in which we could uh look at impact uh round about basic data analytics round about what we're actually doing but obviously we've got some baseline data we're working with uh academic staff to how well are we actually meeting the demands and the needs they will be uh working with us to uh as part of that evaluative process so i suppose what we do and how we support it would be measured as part of that process and things about raising awareness and changes in perception really sorry it's lost evaluations always left to us but