The project has now finished but the work continues. You can find links to all of our outputs on the Project Deliverables tab at the top of this page and in the next week or so we will be linking to a video that explains the functioning of Pineapple.

If you have any questions or comments you can email us – details are on the Contact tab.

The pineapple team have had a paper on the tensions of APEL accepted for publication by the journal Research in Post-Compulsory Education. The lead author is Harriet Dismore and the paper will be published later this year.

The Pineapple and Telstar projects ran an APEL Assembly at JISC  event in Oxford yesterday. It was a good chance to have indepth discussions about some of the more knotty issues, such as group APEL claims, and to get colleagues’ views about some of the issues we have encountered.

We were very pleased to see that Pineapple products came first in the lunchtime Trade Fair. Many thanks to colleagues who voted for us and we hope that you find your products useful. Please check back for final versions of everything when the project is nearer to completion.

Pineapple attended the JISC Joint Information Forum event at Egham this week. This was the first JIF I have attended and I found it a really useful event from a practical project management perspective.  We were delighted to get the award for best poster.

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.

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.

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

In London fo the JISC annual conference, some of the pineapple team took the opportunity to visit its namesake the Pineapple Dance Studio. No sign of Louie though!