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Nottingham Trent University - The Signposts to Success Consortium - Case Study - continued

 

Craven College
We have a structured but interactive e-ILP which is hosted on the college VLE and has been developed in Moodle. It follows course weeks, is underpinned by reflection and:

• provides a repository for materials
• provides opportunities to explore links and activities (IA and learning styles)
• ensures on-line communication between trainees, tutors and mentors
• enables tutors to monitor assignments/activities and trainee access on-line.

 

CertEd/PGCE and C&G 7302 trainees took part in the pilot and responded positively to the tool, seeing it as encouraging reflective practice and recording progress. Future development of the ILP will be to make the discussion board and the use of action learning sets more key to the process.

 

Our pilot project has highlighted the, so far, unresolved tension between embracing ILT (in this case developing and using an e-ILP) while at the same time having to produce paper-based assignments/evidence to meet awarding body requirements.

 

Streaming video: The Learning Resource Centre at the Skipton site - opens in new window (4 minutes) An ITT trainee logs onto the VLE and selects a course that she is enrolled on and enters Moodle. Her tutor asks her how easy it is to use. The trainee responds: very easy easy to log on it is logical and it builds up week by week.   Topics are listed by the week. Housed within each of those weeks are all documents and resources required for study on the course, including word documents, PowerPoint and links to other sites. The student explains which features of the e-ILP she finds most useful: having your own individual folder storing assignments and submitting them for marking being able to re-visit materials and activities from previous weeks, including PowerPoint presentations having links to other sites, e.g. a VAK learning styles questionnaire being able to use the information from these for your ILP.   Tutor and trainee look at the awarding body documentation available within the VLE, which can be worked on on-line. How useful it is to have the forms available on the system? very useful it makes your work look really professional   but . . . it is very strange having to print everything to create your portfolio it goes against the concept of an electronic, on-line document.   Is it a way ahead?   ‘Yes, definitely. I don’t think you can ever replace the human contact of the tutor but this is a really good tool for enhancing learning and it means I can do it independently, knowing that the tutor’s always there.’

 

Our findings
Feedback from the students indicates that as users they found the e-ILP model useful and that it added value to the teaching and learning experience. The trainees in the main bought into and embraced the e-ILP. Of the 43 trainees involved in the pilot, 39 elected to use the electronic ILP, and only 4 chose the paper-based route.

 

The VLE incorporating the e-ILP has been a success within the Education and Training division of the college. The college has targeted the division with demonstrating best practice with the use of e-ILPs on the VLE, in the hope that trainees will then integrate this best practice into their own curriculum areas.