5 th June 2006 L4All Lifelong Learning in London for All Prof Alex Poulovassilis Dr George Magoulas Dr Sara de Freitas Dr Martin Oliver George Papamarkos & Amy Chamier

5 th June 2006 Project Aims Support lifelong learners in London Provide access to information facilitating progression to FE/HE Planning of future learning Share experiences with peers Reflect on learning throughout life

5 th June 2006 Project Partners Birkbeck College Institute of Education London School of Economics Community College Hackney Advisors: John Cook (LMU), Gareth Dent (UfI), Graeme Atherton (Aim Higher), Paul Welch (Prospects), Jill Johnson (UCAS), Suzanne Overton-Edwards (City Westminster College), Stuart Swann (Greenwich Learning Centre), Richard Rayne (BBK), Sarah Vaughn (BBK), Sue Jackson (BBK) Sarah Davies, JISC Programme Manager

5 th June 2006 Motivation Widening participation in HE LLN important due to high-skills needs of the knowledge economy Holistic view needed of individuals’ life, work and learning experiences Importance of timely, relevant careers guidance and support

5 th June 2006 Approach Holistic approach to lifelong learners’ work and learning Based on learner trails/pathways Sharing pathways with others: learning opportunities that may not otherwise have been considered; role models

5 th June 2006 Methodology User requirements elicitation: –use cases –examples of learning pathways –identification of critical decision points Technical requirements elicitation: –development tools and standards –existing e-services

5 th June 2006 Methodology Functional Specification Development of pilot version 1 Metadata provision and generation First evaluation phase Development of pilot version 2 Second evaluation phase

5 th June 2006 Technical aspects

5 th June 2006 Understanding the user Interviews with higher and further education (HE/FE) students; Focus groups with people aiming to get involved with teacher education, representatives from recruitment and careers specialists, course tutors and directors from HE and FE Workshop events; Consultation with the project advisory group and experts in the field;

5 th June 2006 accommodate individual needs Some of the findings (D3.2 User Requirements Report) Learners requested functionalities: Search courses and pathways Browse courses and pathways Case histories Define/Edit/Modify user profile Personalised filtering Annotate content Receive recommendations Share pathways and experiences

5 th June 2006 Collect user-related information

5 th June 2006 Adopt IMS specification Encode user profiles in RDF. This approach: Offers flexibility to include elements from multiple schemas, enriching them with additional elements, when necessary Facilitates interoperability with other systems

5 th June 2006 E-Learning Framework The services are organised into logical groups but no explicit association among service functional definitions is implied.

5 th June 2006 ServiceScope DELTA (Essex)searching over the RDF metadata resources ISIS (Hull)providing sequencing over a set of lifelong learning activities LearnDirectsearching and retrieving content from the LearnDirect database Services examples

5 th June 2006 D6.2 Report on L4All system architecture L4All architecture

5 th June 2006 User Evaluation

5 th June 2006 User elicitation process Semi-structured interviews Individuals from targeted user groups (studying IT, teacher training, FE) Narratives about learning and work Formalised as flow charts

5 th June 2006

First evaluation phase Observational studies Set tasks, talk aloud protocol Identification of errors, bugs, etc. –Concept of ‘timeline’ used instead of ‘trail’ as more comprehensible to users

5 th June 2006 Second evaluation phase Proof of concept Users invited to complete tasks using system Survey to elicit reflections Positive endorsement of the potential of the system

5 th June 2006 Second evaluation phase ‘Crystalisation’: realisation that work and study inter-related, and a path existed to their aspirations Suggestions for use (e.g. in group sessions, facilitated, etc) –Importance of the tool in producing representations that could be shared and discussed

5 th June 2006 L4All Demo

5 th June 2006 We are going to demonstrate: –Timeline creation and editing –Searching for courses –Searching for timelines –Searching for users –The web site resources