PDP4XL 2 supported the use of personal development planning and e-portfolios to develop and sustain favourable learner attitudes towards lifelong learning in the creative industries and health care sectors. Project partners evaluated the ioPortal, the lifelong learning portal developed by Phosphorix, and mapped its data structures for PDP records against those in their institutional VLEs/e-portfolios that supported PDP. The project built on the strengths and successful outcomes of PDP4Life, the regional e-learning pilot for the South West.
The project was led by Bournemouth University (BU), some of the partners included the former PDP4Life partners and one new partner to join the collaboration was the South Wiltshire Health and Social Care Academy (The Academy).
The relationship between the NHS and HE was both close and long standing; individual practitioners may have had multiple engagements with one or a number of HEIs. The inclusion of the NHS in this project offered many benefits, in terms of involving a leading employer already a major commissioner of higher education, and it focused on transferability across different technical platforms.
The focus on the Creative Industries allowed for work that had begun through PDP4Life to be further developed.
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