Learning Technologist of the Year Team Award 2011

The ‘In-Folio’ implementation team which was awarded the Learning Technology Team of the Year Award at the 2011 Association of Learning Technology Annual Conference (ALT-C) dinner.

In-Folio is an e-portfolio system that enables learners, particularly those with disabilities or learning difficulties, to record and present their achievements and abilities. The open source, accessible, simple interface allows learners to store, arrange and organise multimedia content in simple online pages.

The team commissioned development of In-Folio on behalf of the Independent Specialist Colleges (ISCs) after lengthy sector consultations and trials of existing e-portfolios revealed that none were suitable for their learners. In-Folio has now been successfully implemented across the sector having been installed onto the servers of all 44 ISCs.

One of the reasons the judging panel selected In-Folio was ‘the exemplary way in which the distributed team, involving a university, a JISC service, and four independent specialist colleges, approached the project’. Indeed, the team has members from five different organisations: National Star College, The National College for Young People with Epilepsy, Portland College, JISC TechDis and The Rix Centre.  In-Folio was also selected because of the impact and vision of In-Folio itself as well as its strong and beneficial impact on the ISC sector’s use of learning technology more generally.

David Finch, Director of College Development at National Star College said:

“Winning this award is a fantastic achievement for the In-Folio team. But the true measure of the success of it is the learners who are using In-Folio to demonstrate their abilities and achievements.”