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Institute for Learning

Platinum Sponsor - With more than 180,000 members (as at the end of January 2009), the Institute for Learning (IfL) is the professional body for teachers, trainers and assessors across further education (FE), including adult and community learning, emergency and public services, FE colleges, the armed services, the voluntary sector and work-based learning. Wth Becta, LSIS and other representatives from the whole FE sector, IfL has developed REFLECT, an online personal learning space for its members to support the delivery of the Programme, and to help practitioners to plan their 30 hours or pro rata annual continuing professional development, as required by the Institute for Learning.

PebblePaD

Gold Sponsor - PebblePad is a Personal Learning System being used in learning contexts as diverse as schools, colleges, universities and professional bodies; by learners, teachers and assessors for Personal Development Planning, Continuing Professional Development, learning and training. PebblePad supports personal learning whilst providing a powerful suite of tools to improve learning in institutional contexts. Conversation, communication and collaboration is easy in PebblePad; items can be shared with trusted individuals, published to group pages or made public to the world-wide web.

My Knowledge Map

Gold Sponsor - My Knowledge Map - Personal learning and assessment spaces for a mobile generation: Multi-Port™ is a personal learning space that allows you to manage formal and informal assessments and evidence-based reflective learning. It can be customised to provide the features that you and your curriculum require—from competency-based assessments to online spaces where learners can reflect on their experiences.

Giunti Labs S.r.l

Gold Sponsor - Giunti Labs, Giunti Publishing Group´s learning solution and new media company, supports strategic innovation in content creation, management and delivery processes within knowledge and learning organisations. With its roots in publishing in Florence during the Renaissance, Giunti has always been one of the leading and most innovative players in educational and cultural publishing fields in Europe, continually exploiting technology for new publishing models and formats.

mahara

Silver Sponsor - Mahara is a free and open source ePortfolio system first developed via collaboration in the education community in New Zealand. Mahara is learner centred – a form of Personal Learning Environment, with social networking and the capability to form groups and group portfolios. Pan-sector learner communities can be supported using Mahara and there is seamless single sign-on with Moodle out of the box. eLearning specialists, Flexible Learning Network, and open source developers, Catalyst IT, lead the open source Mahara community project.

NIACE

Conference Partner of Key Competencies-Skills for Life and Exhibitor - Advancing the case for adult learning in public policy and debate lies at the heart of NIACE's purpose. With its advocacy work NIACE influences and persuades others that improving, increasing and extending opportunities for adults to learn throughout their lives, has real public as well as private benefits.

Centre for International ePortfolio Development

Exhibitor - The Centre for International ePortfolio Development is an autonomous Centre within the University's School of Education. We manage a set of externally-funded projects led by the University of Nottingham in the area of ePortfolio.

Desire2Learn

Exhibitor - D2L is a Canadian eLearning company, with over 5 million users and 500 customers worldwide. Academically focused, we develop and support a learner centric suite of applications, include VLE, ePortfolio, LOR, LiveRoom, and Desire2Learn 2Go, our mobile learning application.

JISC infoNet

Exhibitor - JISC infoNet aims to be the UK's leading advisory service for managers in the post-compulsory education sector promoting the effective strategic planning, implementation and management of information and learning technology. Whether you are a senior manager leading institutional strategy or you are working in the field of systems, processes or e-learning, we have resources that can help you improve the support for, and quality of, learning and teaching in your institution. Our resources are freely available to institutions and individuals in the UK further and higher education sectors via our website www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk .

Learning and Skills Improvement Service

Exhibitor - The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) is a sector-owned public body, established by the UK government on 1 October 2008 as the result of a merger between two highly successful national sector bodies – the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL – www.centreforexcellence.org.uk ) and the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA – www.qia.org.uk). The role of LSIS is to support the government’s skills agenda by raising standards of leadership, management and teaching and learning across the vocational education, skills and lifelong learning sector...

Taskstream

Exhibitor - TaskStream is the leading provider of electronic portfolio, assessment and accountability management solutions for education. TaskStream’s Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) provides easy-to-use tools for creating and publishing ePortfolios and personal development plans (PDPs), as well as powerful standards-based instruction and evaluation tools for conducting both formative & summative assessments. The Accountability Management System (AMS) facilitates the management of all quality assurance and accreditation processes through a single, centralised platform. This pioneering, web-based system promotes collaborative involvement and internal quality review of all continual improvement processes, including specialised tools for outcomes assessment, curriculum mapping and action planning for “closing the loop” based on collected evidence.

txttools

Exhibitor - txttools has built a solid reputation since 2001, providing robust, simple to use applications based on customer needs in the demanding public sector in the UK and worldwide. Currently in the UK over 45% of all universities and colleges use edutxt and many hospitals, clinics and police forces use the secure online tools. We provide innovative tools through simple to use interfaces making them popular with all users. txttools also provides API's to integrate with existing systems. We are pleased to be working with MyKnowledgemap to provide the text messaging for their new Multiport Mobile.

JISC

Conference Partner - JISC supports UK further & higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications Technology in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. JISC receives funding from all the UK further and higher education funding councils.

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

Conference Partner - Leading strategically, the MLA promotes best practice in museums, libraries and archives, to inspire innovative, integrated and sustainable services for all.

The Nordic E-portfolio Consortium

Conference Partner

The Skills for Life Network

Conference Partner