Graeme won't fail....

Over the past two weeks I have been handing over the ePortfolio project to the new Development Office in QuILT who has responsibility for it, Graeme Boxwell.

It’s been great fun setting up 32 implementation pilots over the past 5 months, and as the project really kicks in with a vengeance, it feels right to be handing it over at such an apposite point at the beginning of a new academic year.

Graeme will be great in his new role, and his enthusiasm for working with the pilots will, I am sure, be not only infectious, but stimulating to all involved. As the project moves towards full implementation across Newcastle University in 2014/15, these pilots will be key in that success.

The development team has been hard at work over the summer building in new features to help support personal tutoring within our homegrown ePortfolio, which will hopefully help support students in developing and refining their skills in reflection. A solid specification and prioritisation process was instrumental in helping us reach decisions on what to build and when, and has provided a model for future new feature processes, which Graeme will refine.

I wish Graeme good luck in his new role, and I hope the foundations I have laid in the past few months give him and the team something solid to build upon, underpinned with strong pedagogy informed technology from the development team in LTMS, without whom the eportfolio at Newcastle would not exist.