Work & Learning Partners

So far the WLP project has been working its way forward and the website has been a developmental website. After the London conclusions there has been a need to to consider how the results of the WLP project can be presented as products and services for users of knowledge. Equally, there has been a need to consider how the work in different working areas can be brought to a final stage within the WLP project. Finally, in the light of progress in some parallel projects, there has been a need to consider how the work of the WLP can be linked to their achievements.

From this perspective I would suggest that the image of the WLP project should be based on the following products and services:

• The WLP Manual
• The WLP Course
• The WLP Web
• The WLP Reports.

These should be presented as the main headings (link buttons) on the top bar of the website. Each link would lead to a specific page or to an index folder (The WLP Reports).

However, the WLP project should be identified as a gallery of resource areas (or working areas). As such I would define the following ones:

1. The WLP tools for basic analyses: The LPA tool, the LAR tool and the workshop facilitators' tools (under construction);
2. The WLP knowledge bases: This area should make available the knowledge resources pooled together with del.icio.us;
3. The KLearn support instruments: This area should present checklists, planning tools and reporting tools that support the development of networked learning arrangements;
4. The WLP case stories: This area should present a gallery of case stories that reflect upon the progress with the WLP project and specific developments related to the project.
5. The WLP multimedia resources: This area should present edited videos and podcasts (presenting the work of the WLP project) and additional video material (provided by individual partners).
6. The WLP piloting area This area should provide access to the native language piloting forums and dissemination forums for Italian, Estonian and Slovenian partners.

These resource areas could be presented as a next layer of headings (link buttons) under the top bar. Each link would lead to a one-layer index folder.

The above presented framework (see the visualisation as the attached document) relates the content areas to each other. In addition, the website needs an information box that refers to the basic infornation pages, to the interim documents and to the blogs.

I am aware that the proposal needs to be explained more thoroughly. In particular this is the case with some areas that are yet under construction (tools for basic analyses, KLearn) and with which it is difficult to see what brings them together. I will get back to this with my next postings to this blog. However, at the same time there is a need to discuss how to support the ongoing efforts at the national level. This discussion will be continued with postings to the blog "WLP Piloting Forum".

Pekka Kämäräinen