Welcome to Shell-Fish

About Shell-Fish

SHELL-FISH project aims to deliver a learning support system by providing learners with a facility to obtain feedback, a development plan and a record of progress related to that feedback. Teachers will have a feedback management system which will allow the accessing and updating of a learner’s record of progress and previous feedback, linking students to existing on-line learning resources and monitoring the impact of resource use on students’ academic performance.

SHELL-FISH will be a plug-in to the SHELL project, which is the leading inter-operability framework, working to UK LEAP and IMS LIP standardised data transfers. SHELL has already developed, tested and proven the technical infrastructure and the base Learner Record for distributed e-Lifelong Learning. The SHELL-FISH plug-in will use the inter-operability features of SHELL whilst creating a pedagogically sound example of effective practice in learning, teaching and technology.

What we are trying to achieve

This project seeks to develop and test an e-personal learning environment (e-PLE) tool which builds on the existing capacity and features of the JISC-funded SHELL project. (www.shellproject.net). The proposed e-PLE tool will enable a FormatIve & Summative Heuristics (FISH) methodology to be applied to coursework assignments submitted electronically by learners.

This project will benefit learners by providing feedback, a development plan based on the feedback and a record of progress related to issues generated during the feedback process. The project will add value to existing online study guidance resources, improving access by inserting hyperlinks into teachers’ feedback comments, and measuring the efficacy of resources by tracking changes in student performance associated with their use. Teachers will benefit from having access to a feedback management system (FMS), the ability to access a record of a learner’s progress and of learner’s previous feedback.

Getting Involved with Shell-Fish

As part of the design process the Shell-Fish team will be running a series of focus groups for staff and students in order to allow user needs to help shape the look and feel of the Shell-fish tools. If you would like ot get involved with either the focus groups or later user testing please contact us.