MANSLE sets out to implement, demonstrate and evaluate the educational use of technical e-portfolio, personal development planning and mentoring tools within a range of foundation degrees across the Greater Manchester Region. The project will evaluate a range of open source tools to support work-based learning and student progression within the context of foundation degree programmes. Elements of these tools will be aggregated using a web services approach within a front-end interface targeted at the needs of the target audience.
The majority of the project’s effort will be concerned with incorporating and supporting the use of these systems within the normal practice of teaching and learning on these degrees, and evaluating the process and outcomes. From this we hope to learn the key human and technical issues, and to adapt the approach to the sustained wider scale roll out of e-portfolios across the Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance (GMSA).
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Final Report describes how several different classes of service were used. (Notes "persistence service", "functionality service" and "transformation service". Each implemented as a web service. So we can either have a SUM if I don't describe the over the top interface or a component based expression if I do. I think in this case, shwoing the innards is probably more interesting.
