 So, I'm Gavin Clinch, carina's here beside me, Oruendority, from Ledicenni, unfortunately, can't make it. Today is in Scotland on an RPL tour. So the project then addresses recognition of prior learning and the coalition, or the Convent Altar Alliance partners have built an E-portfolio and we've developed this over the last year and a half Llywodraeth yn ddweud â'r sydd yng Nghymru a'i fath i ddim yn bwysig i fynd eu cyframe. Jog fel y dynion o'r Seisyddion Llywodraeth, a bod yna'r grwpiau sydd yn fermento. Rhyw gael ei wneud yr Alp Llywodraeth wedi cael ei bodi eu cynnig o'r Grwpiau. There's a big demand from part-time learners to move quickly through the education process and to achieve the qualifications that they often need. So we need to address this and what we've done is an attempt to do that. So the RPL roadshow is going to build upon this work and we've built a website. This is the front page of the website. So this is a protocol, information about the RPL process. What is RPL? It kind of gets away from or gets around the fact that a lot of institutions don't have RPL coordinators. They don't have anybody there that can actually talk about RPL. So there's an information site here and it goes through the process of what RPL is and how to apply for it. So what we have is an applicant applies for a programme on the course. Maybe they get told by a head of department or by a programme coordinator that they don't meet the standard entry requirements. They need to make an RPL application. So they look through the website, they move on to the application process, they log in here. This is now in Moodle. We selected Moodle because it allows for the assessment of learning. Once they log in, they skip through this process, which is just a number of tells them the steps that they have to go through. They have to tick a box to say that they have actually applied for the programme because we don't want people just applying for RPL. We don't even know that they're in the system. Then they come to this page here. This really is predicated on some of the practice that we had and that they had on that Kenny. There are five tabs here along the top. The first one is that they give a profile of themselves and they can say something about themselves in a couple of hundred words here and say who they are. I don't have all of these, these are just screen grabs. I'm not going to spend too much time on this, but they can talk about their work experience, they can talk about their educational experience. They can upload all of the information that they have so they can scan in copies of the certificates or they can upload any work projects that they've done, any formats that we're kind of accepting. So it's all here in one location. This kind of collection then that the heads of departments can look into and that we can manage in a much better way than any kind of iniosyncratic practice that goes on within an institute that different departments have taken different approaches to RPL. So this is the assessor view. The assessor goes in once an application has been made and they've been notified that somebody has applied for their programme. The assessor goes in, clicks on the applicant, can make notes in here and then effectively they're either approving or not approving the application. If they approve the application then the action can be, we're missing the end of that slide, but they can sign off on that and then they can archive it once it's been ratified by the institute itself. So it's a simple enough process to go through. So the tell week itself is designed to develop the RPL assessor and mentoring skills to engage with the e-portfolio. So how does an assessor actually work with the e-portfolio, work with this technology, work the way through it and how does an institute manage it as well. This is, as I say, it's in Moodle, it's branded Connacht Ulster Alliance, that's our grouping. But we can hand this over to any institute or cluster that they can take it, they can rebrand it, they can use the technology in behind it and they can host it themselves. So the tell week is going to cover that, the skills development roadshow and we're going to reach four, the plan is to reach four higher education institutes across the country in the tell week. In dates really in April and May, not one single week. So the institutes that sign up for the roadshow and that engage with this will be given this copy of this Moodle plug-in, which they can host themselves. And it's about 600 euro per annually I think to host, so it's not expensive. OK. Good morning, my name is Karina Ginti, I'm from Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. So just to continue on from Gavin's overview there of our tool, what are we actually going to do? So what we have proposed is that we would work with four higher education institutes in Ireland and one in particular that we have been discussing this project with in advance of coming here today. Because it's been moving a little bit further is DCU and Mark Glenn is here with us today. So we have tools that we want to share with each other. And there is also other institutes that are interested in this but we're not going to talk about that today because we want to see how this project goes and if it gets funding and all of that. So what we plan to do is in order to roll out this tool across four higher education institutes we need to provide a set of open educational learning resources for the staff that are involved in engaging and developing this tool within their own institute. So we have proposed developing an assessment type open educational resource and one that's linked to mentoring as well because the role of assessor and role of mentor is quite different. And when you're managing their journey through the RPL process we need to understand the roles and responsibilities of each of those people. So that's one element. There obviously will be a site visit built in to that program. A site visit with that higher education institute and the staff involved. We also want to involve an international case. We've worked quite closely with people in Scotland who are very well advanced in the whole area of RPL and also we have contacts in France and Australia and in the US. So collectively we'd love to have four lovely webinar pieces or open educational resources that would be prerecorded and we could share them with the partners involved. We'd like to say that we could share this with everybody in the country but I suppose we have to be reasonable at what can we do in a short space of time and can we build a case with four institutes and that might be a case and a stepping stone for the future. So also we think it's really important here to build this online community of RPL practitioners who are engaged with using this type of technology or engage with assessing RPL applicants within their own institute. And you're probably familiar with some of the figures. Lifelong learning participation rates is at 7.3% in Ireland compared to 10.5% which is the EU average. And if we look at the employed sector it's only at 6.2% compared to the EU average of 11.2%. So straight away we see that we need to provide technology tools like this to enable access into higher education and try and build up those numbers. So by doing that we can't just do that in the CUA. We want to be able to share these tools, these technology tools to other providers so that we can try and bring up these rates in the future. So and then creating this online community for RPL practitioners it's quite timely. I know that the QQI in the last couple of months they've been trying to work out a network of practitioners in this space and trying to get them to work together and share resources. So perhaps that can tie in with that as well. Then we'd like to see that participants gain a digital badge for their participation in this. And the project all aboard which has already exists which is running very well. And NUI Galway have a close relationship with us as well because they're part of the cluster. So we'd like to be able to tap in with them and see how can we create a digital badge for people that engage on our RPL roadshow and engage with this tool. Where do we need money or how will we do it? We obviously need technology support. There's only the three of us. There's myself, there's Gavin and there's Oren in letter Kenny. And we've been driving this project for it's actually over two years now from the start, the idea and then building, testing the site. We've been piloting it over a year. We've had about 64 applicants that have engaged in this tool. We've got feedback from it. We've changed the tool. We've developed it further. It's now a lovely tool that can plug into other institutes and working very well. We've adapted it even to include a challenge exam or assessment piece where if there is a gap in somebody's portfolio that they can actually complete a challenge assignment or an exam that is set by that assessor to ensure that are we checking everything. You know, we're not just dismissing that candidate, we're actually testing or evaluating them. So to roll this out we would need some technology support and that's where the funding would go. And we would also need some support for learning technologist. We've engaged a Moodle technologist programmer for some of the project and some of the features that we've needed to bring it to this stage. If we were to share it across four institutes we would need some support to ensure that it went seamlessly into those institutes. That's really it. We need funding to pay for obviously the OERs and making sure that they're lovely professionally branded that can be used across any institute. How will we promote it? Well, we already have the site established, myexperience.ie. We have, through social media, we would set up the Twitter hashtag. There's also LinkedIn groups, institution websites through the forum and through the associates, the new associates group that has been renamed. And there was another group, Gavin, as well that we were talking about. Helen, Helen as well. And how will we evaluate the impact? Again, we would like to see a survey built into an evaluation tool and a survey tool built into myexperience.ie website. We would do some participant interviews, focus group session and looking at coverage around it. Because it is a big national topic as well and looking at participation rates in higher education, this is a good news story. This is a tool that will help build engagement and interest in taking on higher education programmes. If you have institutes across the country from the west, the east, south and in the centre of Ireland, engaging in trialling and testing a tool that's going to give access to higher education, we would see that it would perhaps give some pure coverage around that as well. So, any questions? Thank you.