This Week

• Visit to OU to discuss Moddle developments
• Discussion Rowin: input on new DfES developments for vocational eductaion at assessment SIG
• Agreement to support Lisa with DEL work (Diana Laurillard)
• Conference Call: Eportfolios with Simon, Helen, Peter, Lisa Gray and Sarah Davies

Issues from OU visit

• Moodle scalable and working well (including links to databases and rights management)
• Developments driven by ‘buisess needs’. Standards only applied where appropriate (assessment not a bigp riority)
• SOA approach only applied at the micro level (too risky at higher levels)
• Moodle becoming more rugged (partly due to contribution from OU of open source solutions)

Issues Conference call

• LEAP2 needs wider community
• JISC developments needed to be rooted in the national agenda (e.g. QCF, new Diplomas)

Next Week

• Visit to OU with Becta (ePortfolios)