UK's biggest mobile learning project
By TJ (11-07-2007)
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Around 9,000 students in Yorkshire are able to access their own competencies via mobile learning.
The Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings project (ALPS), a partnership between the Universities of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Leeds Metropolitan and York St John University College, aims to ensure that the graduates, studying 16 different subjects from a wide range of health and social care courses, have the skills needed to be effective in the workplace.
Learning development organisation MyKnowledgeMap (MKM) is creating a backbone system to handle the management, mapping, co-ordination and analysis of the assessment data. T-Mobile will be providing airtime connectivity and mobile hand-held smartphone and PDA devices. Mobile software provider ecommnet is providing data security and mobile applications development and core infrastructure management solutions for the project.
Course leaders will be able to compile and manage assessments, while learners will be able to compile a record of their learning using systems that will integrate with learning environments that both learners and tutors are already accustomed to using.
ALPS will provide the students with a range of materials focused on helping them to assess their competencies, accessible any time, anywhere, via their phones or PDAs. Students will be able to complete assessment questionnaires via their devices, covering core competencies such as teamwork and communication.
They will also be encouraged to reflect on their skills as they practise them. Using the multimedia capabilities of their mobile phones, they will be able to record sound and video, and upload these to e-portfolios online as evidence of their achievements.
The site has full details of the physical network of approved Academy Centres, and the courses they offer, which range from individual modules, to full NVQs and other qualifications. There are currently seven centres, each of which has been accredited to deliver relevant, high-quality learning programmes for its particular specialist area of excellence. Within three years it’s anticipated there will be 35 centres, extending the network’s reach throughout the UK.
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