e-portfolios

media type="custom" key="4645775"E-Portfolios PRT2 Course 30th October 2009


 * What are e-portfolios?
 * What do we do now and how could it be different? Should it?
 * How can we capture the evidence?



"e-Portfolios are about people, rather than technology. The tools have to be unobtrusive, supportive and flexible enough to accommodate the diverse needs and preferences of learners." Effective Practice with e-Portfolios: Supporting 21st century learning. www.jisc.ac.uk/elearning (p.10).

"The main findings of the ePistle project – that e-portfolios need to be experienced as part of ‘a considered and planned curriculum’, and that success is dependent on the fit between the e-portfolio system, the curriculum and learners’ needs – are relevant whenever and wherever an e-portfolio initiative is implemented." (p26). What is next generation learning? RELLCO

Ian Fox
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[|Ian Fox] writes about eportfolios from the NZ perspective  [|Helen Barrett]

Ian suggests that eportfolios need to demonstrate three elements
 * metacognitive thinking
 * relationship between home and school
 * assessment FOR learning

Nick Rate
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 * Nick Rate, DP and 2008 eFellow at Russell St School, explored the way digital portfolios support effective pedagogy and formative assessment in his school. Nick talks about his research, and how eportfolios are essential to the formative assessment process.

Effective Pedagogy http://softwareforlearning.wikispaces.com/file/view/Final+Word.pdf