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 piloting phase is now well underway.They have gone SO well that we are considering it a Pineapple smoothie!
Thanks to all those who have given us such useful feedback. Rob the Builder is already preparing those changes - which we are sure will make the next version even juicier.
Happy Birthday Rob!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Yesterday Myself, Harriet and Claire Ellison of UPC Faculty visited HMS Drake naval base in Plymouth.
Ian Austen was kind enough to show us around and tell about their experiences with APEL. Ian presented to the group details about the Flag Officer Sea Training Hydrography, Meteorology and Oceanography (FOST HM).
We discovered some really good practice with regards to APEL which we will be writing up and discussing further in the coming months so watch this space.
