Simon Grant of CETIS

The wider CETIS community has often appreciated meeting up, with others sharing the same "special interests", in "SIG" meetings. That kind of meeting took place, including old "Portfolio" SIG participants, on 11th Dec in Nottingham, and many interesting points came up.

We've done a great job with Leap2A in terms of providing a workable starting point for interoperability of e-portfolio systems and portability of learner-ownable information, but what are the next steps we (and JISC) should be taking? That's what we need to think about.

The one annual e-portfolio (and identity) conference that I attend reliably was this year co-sponsored by CRA, on top of the principal EIfEL — London, 11th to 13th July. Though it wasn't a big gathering, I felt it was somehow a notch up from last time.

Timely article from the BBC, "Universities need radical overhaul, says David Willetts" (2010-06-10) might provoke a positive response from people like us in CETIS, Bolton's IEC, and the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA). The BBC indicates that Willetts thinks universities faced "tough times" and needed to find cheaper and more flexible ways to teach. [...]