MyPlan –
Personal Planning for Learning Throughout Life
MyPlan targets the
independent lifelong learner by developing, deploying and evaluating new
techniques and tools that allow personalised planning of lifelong learning
activities. The project will bring together stakeholders from a broad range of
institutions all of whom are committed to providing lifelong learning
opportunities which enhance career development and widen participation,
including the recently announced Linking London Lifelong Learning Network
(L4N), comprising over 25 institutions across London. These stakeholders will
have input into the formulation of user and technical requirements and the evaluation
of the tools developed by the project.
MyPlan has three
major aims:
· To develop and evaluate user models that reflect
the needs of the diverse population of lifelong learners. To this end, we will
identify learner attributes that need to be modelled and tasks/activities
undertaken by lifelong learners, e.g. making career and educational choices,
maintaining learning pathways throughout life, sharing information with peers
and tutors. This user-related information will be used to design an ontology
for user modelling in a lifelong learning context.
· To develop, deploy and evaluate personalised
functionalities for the creation, searching and recommendation of learning
pathways. This will enhance individual learners’ engagement with the lifelong learning
process by offering personalised levels of learner control over their learning
pathways, personalised support in the reflection of where their learning
activities may take them, and management of their personal record of progress
and attainment. It will also support building communities of learners with
similar interests, and information sharing with other members of the community,
other users of the MyPlan system, and organisations.
· To evaluate current game-based applications for
supporting lifelong learners with view to developing and integrating a
game-based application into MyPlan.
This will allow learners to role-play different learning and career
progressions in order to give them better understanding of the possible
implications and consequences of different career decisions and educational
choices.
The software tools
developed by the project will be incrementally adopted by the Linking London
Lifelong Learning Network (L4N), funded by HEFCE and will also be made
available for access from within the UCAS web portal.
Project
team:
Support: J.I.S.C.
(e-Learning Capital Programme)
Duration: 2006-2008.