Title | Educational level | PDP context |
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| 4; 5 | Academic |
| An ICT-based initial assessment which reports a student’s level of skill in literacy or numeracy against National Standards and the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Core Curricula from Entry 1 right up to Level 2. The assessments give two reports (an overall summary, and one with more detail), and provide guidance to students and tutors on the appropriate level to begin using Target Skills learning materials. |
| http://www.targetskills.net/index_01.htm |
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| 4; 5; 6 | Academic |
| Diagnostic tool to assess Application of Numbers from entry level 1 through to Key Skill level 3, Communications: from entry level 1 through to Key Skill level 3 and Information Communication & Technology: from Key Skill level 1 and level 2 |
| http://www.examondemand.co.uk/iads.htm |
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| 4; 5 | Academic |
| Practice tests from Move On, a national (English) project offering Level 1 and 2 National Certificate courses in Adult Literacy and Numeracy. |
| http://www.move-on.org.uk/practicetestsResults.asp |
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| 4; 5; 6; 7 | Academic |
| The NQ e-library has teaching and learning materials from Access 1 to Advanced Higher. Many documents can be downloaded free. |
| http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/resources/index.asp |
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| | Academic |
| Portfolio of online resources collected and published by JISC. |
| JISC Collections |
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| | Academic |
| Archives Hub provides single access point to 19,704 descriptions of archives held in over 145 UK universities and colleges. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although complete catalogue descriptions are provided where they are available. Archives Hub forms one part of the UK's National Archives Network, alongside related networking projects. |
| Archives Hub - http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/index.html |
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| | Academic |
Resource Discovery Network is UK's free national gateway to Internet resources for learning, teaching and research community. The service currently links to more than 100,000 resources via a series of subject-based information gateways (or hubs). RDN is primarily aimed at Internet users in UK further and higher education but is freely available to all.
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| http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ |
|
| | Academic |
| A catalog of Internet resources linking to the major subject gateways. |
| http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html |
|
| | Personal; Academic |
Unique online service developed to provide libraries with a complete collection of current, useful and UK-specific reference information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK.
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| http://www.knowuk.co.uk/jsp/marketing/nonsub.jsp |
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| 5 | Academic |
| COLEG (Colleges Open Learning Exchange Group) provides top quality learning materials for use by Scotland's further education colleges. |
| http://www.coleg.org.uk |
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| | Personal; Academic; Career |
| Online learning, support and advice for all ages. |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/ |
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| 5 | Academic |
| Free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials. |
| http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ |
|
| | Academic |
| MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. |
| http://www.merlot.org/Home.po |
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| 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9 | Personal.Personal Development; Academic |
| Learnthat.com™ is contains free online short courses and tutorials in a variety of computer, certification, business, lifestyle, and some not so serious. |
| http://www.learnthat.com/ |
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| | Personal.Personal Development |
| "The difference between a goal and a dream is the written word" says the writer of this article. It is taken from a collection on Top Achivement, an online personal development community. |
| http://www.topachievement.com/ |
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| | Personal.Personal Development |
| VARK (Visual, Aural, Read/Writing and Kinesthetic) is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-out information. |
| http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp |
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| | Personal.Personal Development |
| Leadership guide for supervisors, managers, leads, and anyone wishing to become a leader. The first chapter, Concepts of Leadership, provides a basic background on leadership, while the following chapters provide the skills and knowledge needed to implement effective leadership. |
| http://nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leader.html |
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| | Personal.Study Skills |
| Ten sites selected by the authors as the 'best' in terms of presentation and legibility. Much of the information is similar, but is presented in different ways. |
| http://www.howtostudy.com/topten.htm |
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| 7; 8 | Personal.Study Skills; Academic; Academic.Core Skills |
| Brief advice and tips about various aspects of study at the University of Paisley including guides for reading, writing and exam preparation. |
| http://www.paisley.ac.uk/clt/students/studyskills/ |
|
| | Career.Employability |
| Interactive CV builder provides an opportunity to create and save up to 5 different CVs at any one time. Requires user registration. |
| http://www.careers-scotland.org.uk/careersscotland/Web/Site/People/Being_Successful/JobseekingSkills/CV/IntroCVBuilderP.asp |
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| | Personal.Personal Development |
| People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. But most of us never get around to making a list. 43 Things is great for that! Make a list on 43 Things and see what changes happen in your life. Best of all it’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables. So the next time someone asks you, “what do you do?” you can answer with confidence, “I am doing 43 things!”. |
| 43 Things |
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| | Personal.Personal Development |
| A worksheet that can be used to introduce the website 43Things.com |
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| | Personal.Personal Development |
| The test was developed for the television programme 'What Am I Like? The Personality Test'. It is a simplified personality test based on personality type theory, devised by psychologists. It is not a replacement for the full Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® questionnaire. |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/ |
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| | PDP.Reviewing; Personal.Personal Development |
| The art of learning from experience. 100+ ways to review experience and transfer learning. |
| http://reviewing.co.uk/ |
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| | Personal.Study Skills; Academic; Academic.Core Skills |
| Links to over 200 sites on the web that offer advice on improving your study skills. All websites have been vetted by students. |
| http://www.leeds.ac.uk/skillscentre/for-students/skills-grid/skillsgrid-index.htm |
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| | PDP.Action Planning; Personal.Personal Development; Personal.Study Skills |
| Toodledo is a web-based to-do list. More features than most of the web-based to-do lists on the internet for free and no adverts. Keeping track of all your tasks will help you avoid disorganization, stay motivated and be more productive. |
| http://www.toodledo.com/index.php |
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| | Personal.Personal Development; Academic |
| A short guide for academic staff with ideas for encouraging learners to become more reflective. |
| http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/4_resource/reflective.html |
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| 7; 8; 9; 10 | PDP.Reflection; Personal.Personal Development; Academic |
| Part of the Learning and Teaching Website looking at reflective learning developed by the Learning Development Unit at Liverpool John Moores University. |
| http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/lid/ltweb/ldu_14/0006.htm |
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| | Academic |
| In this issue: Who are the PFIG?; ‘Measuring and Recording Student Achievement’ (The Burgess Report); A Trip to Washington; PDP: Beyond Ticking the Box |
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| | Academic |
| In this issue: PDP for Postgraduate Researchers; Designing an on-line Personal Development Plan (PDP); Employers’ Appraisals tell you what they value in graduates; Things to think about when considering ePortfolios; Effective Learning Framework. |
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| | Academic |
| In this issue: More informed and purposeful applicants; Wales PDP network and developments in Wales; Building an institutional infrastructure; Linking student development planning; PDP: to assess or not to assess? |
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| | Academic |
In this issue: Developing an e-portfolio: a personal view from the user community; Pick yourself up – dust yourself off – but
DON’T start all over again; Does PDP enhance students’
employability? Five major employers think so; Who or what is a PDP Practitioner; From PDP to individualised support for
learning through FE and HE. |
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| | Academic |
In this Issue: e-Portfolio and its implications; e-Progress File developments at Loughborough College; Reviewing progress at Chester; Promoting opportunities for skills and personal development;
HULL – The PDP-friendly University? |
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| | Academic |
| In this issue: Towards the tipping point: an intensely personal view of Progress Files and PDP; Quick Start PDP; PDP – Starting from where we are in Learning and Teaching terms; Supporting learning from reflection; Online PDP and Data Protection; A US Perspective: Self-Directed Lifelong Learning with ‘e-Folio |
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| | Academic |
| In this issue: Supporting Students: PDP in the Faculty of Professional Studies; PDP in the Physical Sciences; The British Council PDP for Language Assistants; PDPs for Student Representatives; Mentoring for the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals; Researching Student attitudes to PDP |
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| | Academic |
| In this issue: Supporting a Lifetime of Learning; Applying to University using an e-Portfolio; PDP Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them; Storytelling in Supporting the Reflective Writing; PDP and Student Volunteers; PDP and Employability: Making it work in Practice; PDP – Do employers know enough and does it matter?; PDP and life after University – the Cooperative Group’s perspective. |
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| | Personal; Personal.Personal Development |
This test is based on the Jung - Myers-Briggs typological approach to personality. There are four criteria:
Extraversion - Introversion
Sensing - Intuition
Thinking - Feeling
Judging - Perceiving
At the end of the test you will obtain your type, strength of the preferences and the description of your type. |
| http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm |
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| | Academic |
| The Open University's OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators. |
| Openlearn |
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| | Academic |
| In scholarly studies of e-portfolios, the idea of fostering online presentation skills has received little attention. Instead, e-portfolios have been touted as forums for reflective learning (Zubizarreta 2004). They owe much of their increasing popularity to their usefulness in documenting progress towards academic standards (Gaide 2006; Lind 2007). From a long-term perspective, the perceived value of e-portfolios lies in their potential as a space for lifelong learning (Greenberg 2004). |
| http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=369 |
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| | Academic |
| One tool currently being investigated as a means to acquire skills while simultaneously building an understanding of the role of technology in education is the electronic portfolio. In this article I outline the distinctive advantages of e-portolios in the context of teacher education programs; I then provide the results of a qualitative study addressing the value of e-portfolios in the more specific context of a teacher education program in music. |
| Innovate journal of online education |
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| | Academic |
| Electronic portfolios (also referred to as eportfolios or webfolios) are gaining recognition as a valuable tool for learners, instructors, and academic organizations. Bold proclamations laud webfolios as “higher education’s new “got to have it” tool – the show-and-tell platform of the millennium” (Cohen and Hibbitts, 2004), and as a tool that “may have the most significant effect on education since the introduction of formal schooling” (Love, McKean, and Gathercoal, 2004). Laying aside new-technology hype and enthusiasm, eportfolios can best be viewed as a reactionary response to fundamental shifts in learning, teaching, technology, and learner needs in a climate where learning is no longer perceived as confined to formal education. |
| elearnspace everything elearning |
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| | Academic |
This rubric may be used for self-assessment and peer feedback.
Evaluation scale:
A - Exemplary: 32-36 points
B - Proficient: 28-31 points
Partially Proficient or Incomplete: Needs to be resubmitted - less than 28 points
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| A+ Rubric |
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| | Academic |
| The ePortfolio Portal serves as a resource to assist you in gaining knowledge around the concepts of eportfolios. |
| ePortfolio Portal |
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| JISC website |
| http://www.jisc.ac.uk |
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