Using online personal

learning plans at Forth

Valley College

Thursday 4th July 2013

Mahara UK, Birmingham

Jasmin Hodge

Today's Session

•The decision to take Personal Learning Plans, Online

•How we made the plan ‘digital’

•The pro’s and con’s

•The future and lessons learnt

•Opportunity to take a PLP home.

The online PLP journey….

•Over 10K non advanced learners completed a paper based

Personal Learning Plan with support of Learner Development

Workers (LDW’s);

•A new approach was needed to engage learners in the

essential PLP process;

•An online PLP was developed using templates created with

Mahara pages;

The online PLP journey….

•How we launched and how many people shouted at us;

•Pro’s and con’s;

•Lesson’s learnt;

•Take a look and help yourself to a copy.

Group Activity

Using the details provided, log onto:

http://moodle.forthvalley.ac.uk/mahara

Download an Online PLP

•Go to: Portfolio menu>Collections

•Click on: Copy a Collection button

•Search pages for: Personal Learning Plan

•Click on: Copy Collection button next to the title.

Summary and the future

• An online PLP model is sustainability, embeds essential digital skills and gives learners independence to allow them to contribute more to their own learning.

• We are currently redeveloping the PLP pages with the team to try and reduce the 12 pages and a more intuitive submission process.

“ePortfolios are learners own stories of what they know”

Thank you.

Jasmin Hodge

Organisational Learning Co-ordinator

http://about.me/jasminhodge

“Knowing about things……Knowing yourself”

With thanks to Dawn Corley for quotes