Tag Archives: PineAPPLe

Action!

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!

GEES Subject Centre 10th Anniversary Conference

As you can see below, Pineapple has a presence at the GEES Subject Centre GEES Learning and Teaching to 2020 conference taking place this week.

Recognition of Prior Learning Outcomes (RPLO) event

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 [...]

University of Plymouth TEL Showcase

Yesterday the University held a showcase of TEL activities that are going on at the institution. As part of an exhibition of JISC funded projects at Plymouth, the Pineapple Project disseminated information and talked to lots of delegates. The team were wearing a variety of hats and also took the opportunity to promote the Uplace [...]

Pineapple Workshop

The team attended the Sustaining Innovation via Organisational Development Workshop on Monday June 7th at Staffordshire University. There were plenty of interesting debates during the workshops that were held throughout the day and we contributed a session on APEL and the Pineapple tool.

HEA funded UsPaCe Seminar

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 [...]

UPC Summer Conference

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 [...]

Meeting with University of Plymouth registry

The team recently met up with the University of Plymouth registry to discuss the finer detail of their APEL regulations.

APEL at HMS DRAKE

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 [...]

Pineapple Field Trip

In London fo the JISC annual conference, some of the pineapple team took the opportunity to visit its namesake the Pineapple Dance Studio. No sign of Louie though!

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