The ALPS project has been nominated for the
'Innovation Award' in the Tertiary, FE & HE category at the
2009 Handheld Learning Awards. This follows the recent
nomination for the ALPS project for the 'Best use of mobile
learning' award at the e-Learning Awards 2009.
There are five categories at the 2009 Handheld Learning
Awards plus a special award:
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Primary
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Secondary
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Further and Tertiary
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Training and Business
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Special Needs
Votes can be sent by SMS by texting ALPS to +44 (0)7786 205 637.
SMS charges vary according to operator but this is a non-premium
rate service so your contract may include free SMS. The deadline
for voting is midnight UK time on Monday 28th September.
Winners will be announced at the now legendary evening awards
party on Monday 5th October. This year's Awards will be hosted by
Jason Bradbury.
The ALPS project is a service platform allowing tutors at five
Yorkshire Universities to send assessments and supporting materials
to the mobile devices of Health and Social Care students on
work-based practice.
MyKnowledgeMap worked with T-Mobile and mobile software
specialist ecommnet to create the mobile assessment and e-portfolio
system for ALPS. The system supports the creation, distribution and
storing of assessment tools on mobile devices. It allows tutors to
create assessments based around core health and social care
competencies and send them to the devices of students on work-based
practice.
The ALPS mobile devices encourage reflective learning, as
students are required to gather feedback from practice assessors,
peers, service users and carers. When an assessment is uploaded to
a student's e-portfolio, the competency frameworks within the ALPS
Assessment Suite allow the tutor to map the skills the student has
demonstrated against interprofessional and profession-specific
performance criteria.
The project has already been of benefit to hundreds of students,
and there is huge scope to improve work-based learning and
assessment for much greater numbers if ALPS processes and outputs
are embedded when the programme comes to an end in September
2010.
For more information about the awards visit http://www.handheldlearning2009.com/awards.