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Summary
The aim of Keypal is to establish the relevance and potential impact of the ePortfolio on the development and assessment of key-skills (basic skills / key competencies), a critical issue for Europe, if we want to make Europe'the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustained economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion'
Objectives
On average, adults with poor skills earn lower wages and experience unemployment more frequently than those with higher levels of initial skills. The need to raise massively the level of basic skills of the European population, in particular in the groups of disfranchised young adults, requires the exploration of innovative approaches, where technology is not only used as a means to teach new skills, but as a tool to empower learners to manage their own learning.
Key-PAL will explore how the ePortfolio can support and valorise self-managed learning and development for the acquisition of key-skills. It will furthermore explore the ability of the ePortfolio to support young adults in interacting with all the actors that can contribute to their development and learning: orientation services, educational services (school of second chance, night classes), and all naturally occurring informal and non-formal learning opportunities (at work, in social activities, at home, in libraries, clubs or museums, etc.).
Main Activities
- Desk research into the definitions of key skills and the approaches used for their development and assessment across Europe.
- Research into the use of ePortfolio and ePortfolio-related initiatives of relevance to the population of young adults lacking basic skills
- Consultation of professionals currently working with such young adults in order to establish the potential role to be played by the ePortfolio in the acquisition of such skills
- Establishment of a collaborative network of professionals in a number of European countries to develop and promote the use of the ePortfolio with young adults
- Recommendations for all services, public and private, contributing to the education/insertion of young adults, to use the individual ePortfolio, as a tool to communicate information among stakeholders under the control of the young adult
- Recommendations to publishers of ePortfolio and ePortfolio-related technologies (e.g. job search portal) to maximise the potential of this technology and practice
- Producing practical implementation tools
- Piloting the ePortfolio with a number of learning providers
- Building an Internet site; producing white papers, and organising seminars and workshops; collecting information and disseminating the results in three languages (FR, EN, and DE).
Expected Outputs
- A collaboration network of professionals using the ePortfolio with young adults in order to enable them to acquire and develop basic skills
- Practical guides and implementation tools to support learning professionals in using the ePortfolio with young adults
- A series of recommendations for all the services, public and private, contributing to the educa-tion/insertion of young adults, for using the individual ePortfolio, as a tool to communicate information among stakeholders under the strict control of the young adult
- A series of recommendations to publishers of ePortfolio and ePortfolio-related technologies (e.g. professional orientation portal, job search, etc.) to maximise the potential of this technology and practice
- A series of seminars and workshops to collect information and disseminate the results in three languages (FR, EN, and DE) and across Europe.
Project Partners
EIfEL - European Institute for E-Learning - FRANCE (Coordinator)
Ecole de la Deuxième Chance de Seine St Denis - FRANCE (Partner)
Edinburgh University Settlement - UK (Partner and leading work on Occupational Standards)
Careers Wales North West - UK (Partner and leading key skills benchmarking activities)
The MRS Consultancy Ltd - UK (Partner and leading the piloting activities)
Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (SIAE) - Slovenia (Partner)
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Kreisverband Bremen, e.V. - GERMANY (Partner)
PaperFree Systems Ltd - UK (Partner)
Ynternet - SWITZERLAND (Partner via Swiss funding)
Project information
KEYPAL is a 2 year project supported by DG Education and Culture under the Socrates - Grundtvig programme.
The project commenced officially on 1st October 2004 and the kick off meeting was held on 4th & 5th November 2004 in Cardiff.
The second partner meeting was held in Paris on 15th and 16th March 2005 and the third in Bremen on 29th June to 1st July at DRK and the 4th at the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education in Ljubljiana in January 2006. The next partner meeting will be held in Edinburgh (hosted by EUS) from 31st May to 2nd June. As part of this meeting the partners are holding an open seminar on the results of the ePortfolio pilots. More information can be found below.
KEYPAL Partners carried out 6 ePortfolio pilots in 2005/2006 and you can find out more about the outcomes of these pilots in teh pilot evaluation summary available below.
If you are interested in finding out more about KEYPAL activities please send an email to Angela BAKER at EIfEL.
Project news
The first KEYPAL Open seminar was held at the Slovenian Inistitute for Adult Education in Ljubljana in January 2006. You can find the event report here.
A second open KEYPAL seminar was held at the Edinburgh University Settlement on the afternoon of Thursday 1st June . The programme can be found at > and the presentations made at the seminar and the event report can be found here.
Project Results
The KEYPAL project ended in October 2006.
The partners are pleased to make available under the Creative Commons License the key project results that we hope you will use and benefit from. The guides and documents are currently available in English and the Tutor's and User's guides are also available in French, German and Slovenian from the relevant links below.
- Tutor's Guide to accompanying adults in developing their ePortfolio .doc .pdf .pdf (version française) .doc (German version)
- User's Guide to developing an ePortfolio (targetted at young adults) .doc .html .doc (Slovenian version) .pdf (version française) .doc (German version)
- A list of recommendations for ePortfolio implementers, solution providers and policy makers . pdf
- A summary of the KEYPAL ePortfolio evaluation report .pdf .pdf (version française) .pdf (German version)
- A Benchmarking report on key skills in Europe .doc .pdf
- A demonstration platform of an ePortfolio Management System
A full evaluation report on the ePortfolio pilots in the project is also available on request to the Project Coordinator.