PDP4Life is a collaborative partnership led by Bournemouth University involving ten other partners in the South West of England.
In response to Progress Files initiatives, many schools and further and higher education institutions have developed their own electronic systems for Personal Development Planning (PDP) or Individual Learning Plans (ILP) that support the student in the processes of personal development planning at their own site. However, little work has been done on developing frameworks within PDP systems to enable learners to merge formal and informal records of learning into a single database from which they can draw information about their learning over a period of time and present it to different audiences.
The PDP4Life project will address this gap by building on the outputs of the SHELL project to develop a specification for a learner record that merges outputs from formal and informal learning, focusing in particular on the needs of learners in the creative industries.
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