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Scenarios from the MLEs for Lifelong Learning projects

Why?

Scenarios describe typical uses of a system as narratives or stories. Scenarios will help practitioners, learners, systems developers and managers to have a shared understanding of the purpose of a system and how the system can benefit all stakeholders.

Scenarios describe typical uses of a system as narratives or stories. Use cases describe the major functions that a system will perform for the major actors, and also the goals that the system achieves for those actors along the way. (An actor may be a person or an electronic tool within the scenario). Thus use cases describe the requirements of a system, independent of its architecture or type.

Developing scenarios of use of a system, and use cases of key processes within scenarios, are essential steps towards developing formal specifications and standards relating to interoperability.

Scenarios and use cases will help practitioners, learners, systems developers and managers have a shared understanding of the purpose of a system and how it benefits all stakeholders. It is anticipated that, although systems may differ in their type, approach and structures, there will nevertheless be commonality of purpose between systems, and that use cases developed in relation to an individual system will be generic, and thus potentially reusable and transferable for use within the wider community.

The MLE4LLL Programme is facilitating this work to help the wider community to understand more about supporting transfer of learner

What?

Here are some examples of scenarios from the MLEs for Lifelong Learning projects.

Glamorgan

[MS Word] Implementing the E-College Wales MLE – The Recruitment and Induction process

Loughborough

[MS Word] Full–time learner with disability

MUSCLE

[MS Word] The Sharing of Learner Resources and Learner Record Data (LRD) electronically across Institutions

NIIMLE

[MS Word] The use of a mentoring service to support learners in their choice of ‘Next Course’ and ‘Next Institution’

Nottingham

[MS Word] The use of an e-portfolio to support transitions between episodes of Learning

PROSPERO

[MS Word] The use of an e-portfolio to support transitions between episodes of Learning

TransPortALL

[MS Word] Student view of PDP moving from FE to HE context

Union Education Online (UEO)

Here are four Activity Diagrams to do with the project.

Application process

Contract agreement process

Overall process

Pre-application: selecting and assessing (suitability for/of) future options

Worcester

[MS Word] Registration process for part-time Foundation Degree students

How?

Here are some examples of documents to support the construction of scenarios including those from workshops, courses a resource pack, and a further, forward looking paper 'Building on the scenarios methodology', which builds on this work.

Scenarios Resource Pack This is the Scenarios Resource Pack (Version March 2005).

Scenarios Resource Pack Annex This is the Scenarios Resource Pack Annex, which sets out an exercise to develop a scenario and the template to use for this. It includes a worked example.

JISC MLEs for Lifelong Learning Programme: Building on the Scenarios Methodology

If you are a members of one of the JISC MLEs for Lifelong Learning projects, we are here to support you. For general and non-technical matters, please contact the Centre for Recording Achievement. For technical questions you may contact Simon Grant directly.

Please also send suggestions for additions or improvements to this page or site to Simon Grant.

Revised 2005-08-23 12:42:28