Multi-Port
Multi-Port is a flexible framework designed specifically to support e-portfolios and other learning platforms. It offers an open-service architecture that facilitates integration across multiple tools and components. What does this mean to you? In a word...freedom.
"We understand the requirement for flexibility, integration and user experience. Instead of a monolithic, unyielding system with pre-built functionality, organisations can use Multi-Port as the underlying core framework to incorporate a wide range of systems and applications."
Dave Waller
Operations Director and Head of R&D
Combine a range of tools and services
Multi-Port’s open architecture means you can quickly develop new tools and services, or use a range of existing ones, to “plug in” to your e-portfolio or learning platform. For example:
- Skills gap analysis tools
- Blogs
- Learning delivery systems
- Authoring tools
- Virtual Learning Environments
- Learning Management Systems
- Existing Web 2.0 tools and services such as Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Flickr and more
The underlying framework then handles how the information is stored, managed and communicated between the tools and systems; essentially it can be used as middleware to integrate separate systems.
For example, the services available through Multi-Port could be used to connect an e-portfolio and a learning delivery system to handle communication, storage and management of information.
Cutting-edge technology, forward-thinking people
We pride ourselves in our involvement with some truly innovative projects, developing solutions for e-learning initiatives across the country.
With Universities
Our work on the award-winning ALPS project was thought-provoking and ground-breaking.The service platform we developed allows tutors to create assessments around core competencies and send them to groups of students, or individuals, for completion. Using PDA's, students complete assessments in their work environments and submit them to tutors for feedback.
With refelective blogging capabilities built in, students were really inspired by this new way of working.
"I could write short notes, I could adapt it, I could add to it, I could change things..it was just so much easier."
ALPS User
University of Leeds
In Further Education
MyKnowledgeMap is currently working on a project with MoLeNET to introduce mobile learning into all FE colleges. MoLeNET has chosen MyKnowledgeMap’s Multi-Port as the system which will support and facilitate the mobile learning.
Multi-Port is an innovative and award-winning personal learning space system which offers a complete infrastructure for managing online and offline assessments using mobile devices. It is flexible enough to support the delivery of any qualification where evidence of competencies are matched to structured requirements – whether NVQ, Foundation Degree, or work-based learning.
In the Workplace
Last year, the UK government agency for work-based degrees, Foundation Degree Forward, awarded the contract to produce a Foundation Degree in Retail to MyKnowledgeMap, the Retail Academy, University of the Arts London and Manchester Metropolitan University.
As the technical developer for the project, MyKnowledgeMap created a combination of interactive and customisable e-learning and an online classroom for this unique programme.
The foundation degree gives learners a chance to further their education and development, while still being able to perform a full time job. The degree appeals to a wide range of learners, from students straight out of school or college, to seasoned retail professionals.
Tesco have funded a further sixty of their employees to study for the new degree and these students have recently started the two year course. The success of the initial pilot and the positive publicity it has received has led other organisations and higher education institutions to consider offering the foundation degree. Some of the institutions that have expressed an interest in delivering the course next year include Leicester College, AAH Pharmaceuticals and Sainsbury’s
Across Europe
Most learning in the workplace occurs informally through working with other employees, clients, customers, suppliers and reacting positively to their feedback. Much of this learning goes unrecognised by the employer and also by the individuals themselves.
The European Initiative for the Promotion of Informal Learning (EIPIL-PAN) seeks to help employers recognise the value of informal learning in the workplace and develop a framework within which it can be accredited. MyKnowledgeMap and the Retail Academy are partnering with EIfEL to provide the e-portfolio to support the implementation of a single framework which accredits informal learning in the retail and IT sectors.
Find out more
If you'd like to find out more about Multi-Port and MyKnowledgeMap's open approach to e-portfolios then you can get in touch with us in the following ways:
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