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Dr Angela Josephine Smallwood

National Teaching Fellow 2000 Dr Angela Smallwood is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, having lectured and researched in English Studies for around 20 years before relocating to the School of Education in recognition of her full-time commitment to learning and teaching, as Co-Director of the CETL for Integrative Learning and Director of the University's Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD).
Year
2000
Institution
University of Nottingham
Job Title
Strategic Advisor on ePortfolio Development
National Teaching Fellow 2000 Dr Angela Smallwood is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, having lectured and researched in English Studies for around 20 years before relocating to the School of Education in recognition of her full-time commitment to learning and teaching, as Co-Director of the CETL for Integrative Learning and Director of the University's Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD).     Her immersion in learning and teaching development started in 1996 when she won one of the first FDTL project awards, to explore the extension of academic records for personal learning in 7 UK universities, through the PADSHE Project. From the late 1990s onwards the internet took over and she now specialises in e-portfolios. Her NTFS award (2000) was used to consult widely and build a student-centred web tool, added to the institutional eProgress File in use across the University, to support students' reflective recording of skills evidence both inside and outside the curriculum. She has directed several JISC projects on eportfolios for transition between phases of lifelong learning and for widening access to HE, leads work within the University to test a range of eportfolio tools in different learning contexts and directs the CIePD's eportfolio work for work-based learners through LEAP AHEAD, the Lifelong Learning Network for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. She is international peer reviewer for the Australian ePortfolio Project, 2007-2009. Interest in undergraduates' life wide learning and the interface between universities and the world of employment have long engaged her attention and are now high on policy agendas.   This focus is also reflected in her directorship of the CIePD's contribution to an EU FP7 project, TAS3, which is providing the only UK pilots of crucial new IT infrastructure for work-based learners, Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services, through activities related to regional workforce development.

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