Personal Development Planning (PDP)

For the latest news on Mahara the centrally supported PDP software used at the university of Glasgow go to the IT services Blog.

Survey results published: e-pdp and e-portfolio practice in UK higher education

This survey was undertaken by the Centre for Recording Achievement on behalf of the Higher Education Academy.
The e-portfolio field is changing very rapidly and this survey provides a snapshot, at an interesting juncture, of an ongoing process.

Link to e-pdp and e-porfolio survey results

The Higher Education Academy

This gives an overview of what Personal Development Planning is, why the Higher Education Academy are promoting it, and what they are doing to support it.

This working paper summarises progress reported and issues raised by participants attending regional based workshops in 1995 on implementing the Higher Education Progress File (as recommended by the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education [the Dearing Report 1997]).

Centre for Recording Achievement

This explains Centre for Recording Achievement's role in   promoting 'the awareness of recording achievement and action planning processes as an important element in improving learning and progression throughout the world of education, training and employment’.

University of Bolton Learning and Teaching Conference: 4th July  2006

Workshop: Developing ‘fit for purpose’ e-portfolios to support personal development planning

Paper by Helen Richardson, University of Manchester/Centre for Recording Achievement/ JISC CETIS Portfolio Special Interest Group

This introductory paper aims to help individuals and institutions to make informed choices about functional requirements from an e-portfolio system to serve their particular purpose(s).   It introduces a planning tool to aid decision making in this process.