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Personal Development Planning in the UK, Europe, USA and Elsewhere A collaborative work by the UK's Open University H808 participants October 2009

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UK - Key Drivers For PDP <ul><ul><li>Strong government push to lifelong learning/elearning </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Professional organisations in post-compulsory education have a ‘best-practice’ agenda that promotes PDP </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Push from research organisations, software developers and international standards organisations, i.e. JISC ePortfolio projects </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Individual universities and colleges promoting their own practices and systems </li></ul></ul>

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Europe - Key Drivers For PDP <ul><ul><li>Goal of EIfEL &quot;EIfEL set the goal that by 2010 every citizen should have accessto an ePortfolio&quot; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>The Development of EuroPass, standardised CV/eportfolio system </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>EuroPortfolio, a group whose aim to &quot;Make Europe the most competitive knowledge economy by 2010&quot; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Introducing a common frame for the use of the e-portfolioin order to maximize learning/knowledge economy </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>European Language Portfolio by the Council of Europe </li></ul></ul>

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USA - Key Drivers for PDP <ul><ul><li>Student work is now mostly in electronic form </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>The web is everywhere – the work is ‘out there’ on the internet already </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Databases are available to manage large volumes of work </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Multiple users with multiple perspectives - potentially influenced by respective business plans but often not knowing requirements or subject to changing needs </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Funding implications </li></ul></ul>

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Elsewhere - Key Drivers For PDP <ul><ul><li>Need for englobing the laboral necessesities and the social reality of the new technologies </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Educational reform, i.e. Finland: Trainee teachers learn how to use ICT tools for educational purposes and production of digital learning materials. Learning products collected in a portfolio. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>National policies, i.e. Norway: Portfolios are used in primary education and integrated in teacher education as part of educational reform in the higher education policy. </li></ul></ul>