Fleur Corfield's Page

I thought I would drop in quickly to say that as part of the Million+ JISC work I will be presenting on a past Work Based Learning Project in Leeds on the 22nd October. The WBL Project (http://www.projects.staffs.ac.uk/surfwbl/) was focused on developing learning resources in a number of different formats to support not just the learner but tutors and mentors. The materials are all available in JORUM.

Well hopefully the rest of the project team will now join this community after mentioning it at todays project meeting - they certainly have raised some issues that could be discussed in the forums here, including how FE's manage different relationships - how do they cope with different awards validated by different HE institutions and what support should be in place for those learners? This would have been an interesting one to raise at yesterdays JISC meeting in Birmingham.

It's always the same, you think something is dead easy to do something and then you try and explain it to others and realise that it's the hardest thing to understand. I am in the process of re-writing the SURF WBL leaflets as the project Evaluation site is now used for completely different purposes now and this is not clear from the text on the site or the leaflet.

For those of you interested in the SURF WBL project (part of X4L Phase 2) the following sites are in existance:

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I already have a project blog with Google - take a look and see how the project is going, or see how the project partners are getting on.

http://surfwblway.blogspot.com/