Openness to Electronic Professional Development Planning: Evaluating the Interactive Logbook Project
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pilkington, R.; Meek, J.; Corlett, D.; Chan, T.
- Source
- Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06) Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on. :774-778 2006
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
General Topics for Engineers
Portfolios
Software tools
Meeting planning
Problem-solving
Employment
Continuing education
Buildings
Process planning
Feedback
Qualifications
- Language
- ISSN
- 2161-3761
2161-377X
Students in Higher Education are increasingly called upon to develop the skills of lifelong learning and are encouraged to construct portfolios as a record of and to reflect on their learning. The Interactive Logbook (IL) project has developed software tools to support students in recording their learning electronically. As part of the ongoing evaluation of these tools we are investigating: tutor and student openness to Professional Development Planning (PDP); their expectations of support tools and the extent to which ILs affordances meet these. In this paper we report on issues arising out of the initial expectations of tutors from focus groups and interviews: Issues emerging concern both the perceived utility of PDP and tutor openness to electronic support.