Student Name: Paul Stephensen Degree: Masters Of Arts Research Kk51

Student Name: Paul Stephensen Degree: Masters of Arts Research kk51 Project title: Documenting the DMAP system: A multiple case study that documents the extension of ePortfolio models through the use of advanced multimedia tools and open source social software. Abstract: The Digital Multimedia Asset Portfolio (DMAP) system provides an example of how the DMAP team’s conceptual framework for critiquing the development and use of ePortfolios. The DMAP protocols can now be integrated into a flexible multi-user system that allows creative industries students to show case their multimedia rich artefacts and research outcomes to their academic supervisors and key stake holders via the Internet. The DMAP system achieves this by allowing its users to create an electronic filing cabinet that stores electronic records in the form of reflective journals, hypertext and rich multimedia files as artefacts of a students learning. Once these artefacts have been saved within the system they can be retrieved and annotated by the student’s academic supervisors using a standard web browser thus providing a powerful online audit trail of the student’s research journey. The project contains two main elements which include the building, installation and configuration of the DMAP system that uses open source software known as Wordpress-mu. The gathering of data is achieved through the use of qualitative data techniques including case studies, focus groups and semi structured interviews, and will be reported on in a traditional thesis structure. The project’s research question asks us to reflect on what elements of interaction and design best enable a post graduate student to manage and provide evidence of their learning through the use of virtual teams in a higher education setting.