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Learning objects and learning design
Learning interaction and networked communities
Informal eLearning
Funded projects

This project is funded through the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), as part of its call for ‘Regional e-Learning pilot projects around distributed e-Learning’.

LTRI is part of a consortium lead by Birkbeck (University of London) and includes The Institute of Education, Hackney Community College, Goldsmiths, The London School of Economics, Greenwich City Learning Centre and Kingston University.

L4All targets the independent lifelong learner by creating a system that records and shares learning pathways and trails. L4All will create a Web Portal that will allow learners to access selected information and resources, plan their own learning pathways, and maintain and reflect upon their individual record of learning throughout their lives. The system will allow learners to share their learning plans and pathways with other learners, in order to formulate future learning goals and aspirations. Tutors will be able to publish recommended pathways through courses and modules, thereby facilitating progression into Higher Education (HE) and supporting career choices.

To achieve this, the L4All project will work beyond infrastructure and technological barriers, bringing together a diverse group of people from a range of institutions, all of whom are committed to providing learning opportunities which enhance career development and widen participation across the London region. L4All will be the catalyst for devising a new framework of policies that engage the interest of lifelong learners, developing their trust in carrying out e-learning and web-based activities, whilst encouraging learners to take responsibility for planning and managing their own lifelong learning and continued professional development. The L4All pilot will provide not only a valuable resource for learners taking non-traditional pathways into HE, but will also act as a valuable test-bed of cross-institutional access management, enabling the assisted adoption of Shibboleth by a number of London institutions.

Aims and objectives
L4All will provide an environment in which the lifelong learner can access quality-assured learning materials, personal development plans, learning pathways, personalised support for planning of learning, and facilitate increased reflection upon learning. To this end, the project aims to develop a pilot that will provide:

• a Web Portal that provides information on Work-Based Learning (WBL), Further Education (FE) and HE courses and modules available to learners in the London region;
• personalised support in planning and reflecting on personal development and lifelong learning activities;
• advice on learning and personal development pathways;
• support in designing and maintaining personal learning and development plans;
• a forum for learners to share information and collaborate with peers and tutors.

For more information about this funding strand and other projects funded go to: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/delpilots.html

For more information about the L4All project go to the project's web site: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/research/l4all.html

Contact details

John Cook
Learning Technology Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
35 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AA
Email:  john.cook@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel :  +44 (0)207 133 4341
Fax:  +44 (0)207 133 4348
WWW: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri

Last updated 21 December, 2010