Well after many months of work we have an alpha version of the Pineapple Core ready. We have a bit more work to do on it before we look to trial it in September.

I have put together 3 short videos showing the administration, process management/design and the user end of the system. There are still bugs and things to work on but we feel the system is at a suitable level of development to be able to demonstrate it.

Preview the alpha version of Pineapple Core (Administration)

Preview the alpha version of Pineapple Core (Process Manager/Designer)

Preview the alpha version of Pineapple Core (User Front End)

It was lights, camera, action this morning as the Pineapple crew got filming for some talking heads. It took us under an hour – now that’s what I call a wrap!

Invited to speak at the annual UPC Arts Subject Forum Event at Dartington Hall. Lovely location and brilliant opportunity to present Pineapple progress. Lots of questions, lots of interest and a number of willing volunteers to help us in September.

As you can see below, Pineapple has a presence at the GEES Subject Centre GEES Learning and Teaching to 2020 conference taking place this week.

Anne and I have just returned from attending a national APEL event at York St John. Presentations such as one on the strategic benefits of APEL in difficult times and group discussions on innovative practices were very useful. One issue is still recurring and that is the terminology and our understanding of it. Overall, lots of good contacts were made and York was lovely!

Yesterday the University held a showcase of TEL activities that are going on at the institution. As part of an exhibition of JISC funded projects at Plymouth, the Pineapple Project disseminated information and talked to lots of delegates. The team were wearing a variety of hats and also took the opportunity to promote the Uplace Repository project and the Uspace Web 2.0 project. A busy but enjoyable day with great cream cakes.

The team attended the Sustaining Innovation via Organisational Development Workshop on Monday June 7th at Staffordshire University. There were plenty of interesting debates during the workshops that were held throughout the day and we contributed a session on APEL and the Pineapple tool.

The UsPaCe project is complete but there is still a lot of interest. Today we gave a 3 hour workshop on the project and the tools that we used but we took the opportunity to mention Pineapple and not surprisingly the discussion turned to APEL. It seems that everyone has some experience of thinking about or doing APEL even if they do not realised that is what it is called. We were able to give some advice and gather more information from the learner’s perspective.

Yesterday I was at the (University of Plymouth Colleges) UPC summer conference titled ‘A whole new CETL of Fish’ which took place on campus. The Pineapple Project had a display at the event and it received quite a lot of interest. I attended a workshop on the growing importance of APEL and updated delegates on the Pineapple Project.

The team recently met up with the University of Plymouth registry to discuss the finer detail of their APEL regulations.