ePortfolios
• ePortfolios come in many forms and suit many
About ePortfolios
electronic portfolio
http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/interdisciplinary
/ict/glossary.html
An electronic portfolio (e-portfolio) is a bank of files
or a repository of digital evidence selected by
students to demonstrate their learning and to
monitor their learning progress.
Helen Barrett’s Electronic Portfolios
http://electronicportfolios.org
Helen Barrett is an ePortfolio guru with an extensive
website including videos, presentation and
emphasis on digital storytelling.
Balancing the two faces of ePortfolios
http://electronicportfolios.org/balance
This diagram provides an excellent overview of
ePortfolio types and issues.
ePortfolios on elearnspace
www.elearnspace.org/Articles/eportfolios.htm
Elearnspace: everything elearning George
Siemens, 2004
A review of the literature on portfolios and
electronic portfolios 2006
https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/142/1101/eP
ortfolio%20Project%20Research%20Report.pdf,
Philippa Butler, Massey University College of
Education, Palmerston North.
Why do we need an ePortfolio?
http://www.eife-l.org/publications/eportfolio
European Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL)
e-Portfolio Fever
www.education-
world.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial038d.shtml
Presents challenges of ePortfolios
Main points:
purposes
• ePortfolios are learner-centred and outcomes-
based
• ePortfolios present benefits over non-digital
equivalents
• ePortfolios present challenges for individuals
and institutions
ePortfolio examples
Jessica's ePortfolio
http://jesseportfolio.wikispaces.com
Jessica is a High School student in Auckland, New
Zealand. She has an ePortfolio which uses Glogster
as the front page of a wiki made in Wikispaces.
Sarah’s ePortfolio
http://sarahstewart-eportfolio.wikispaces.com/
Sarah is a health professional using Wikispaces for
her ePortfolio
Pru’s ePortfolio 2007
http://elgg.edna.edu.au/pmitchell/
Pru experimented with using a local installation of
Elgg as an ePortfolio platform during 2007.
Concetta’s ePortfolio
http://me.edu.au/p/cgotlieb
Concetta makes great use of the social networking
environment in me.edu.au to maintain an extensive
ePortfolio.
Assessment
Assessing the whole child
How to create powerful portfolios & student led
conferences, by Jane Satchwell, and Gavin Grift,
Hawker Brownlow, 2007
Assessment for learning
www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearni
ng/assessment/preptoyear10/assessadvi
ce/
A diagram and professional development package
about assessment for learning, assessment as
learning and assessment of learning.
ePortfolio projects
European Consortium for the ePortfolio
http://www.europortfolio.org Moodleman, Julian Ridden discusses options for
This site provides information on international using ePortfolios with Moodle, either as an external
initiatives and in particular the mission for an or integrated service.
‘ePortfolio for all’.
Mahara
ePortfolio symposium report 2008 http://mahara.org/
http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/webdav/share
d/papers/eportfolio_report.pdf Elgg
The report of this Education.au symposium http://elgg.net
summarises ePortfolio activity around Australia and me.edu.au
provides an overview of the key drivers and issues
http://me.edu.au
in ePortfolio development.
Australian ePortfolio Project Final Report Wikispaces
http://www.eportfoliopractice.qut.edu.au http://www.wikispaces.com/
This 2008 report from the national Australian Glogster
Learning and Teaching Council project AeP project, http://www.glogster.com/
provides an in depth discussion of the Australian
university sector. The second recommendation in Edublogs
this extensive report talks about the lifelong learning http://edublogs.org/
aspect of ePortfolios.
PowerPoint tutorial
Australian Flexible Learning Framework E- http://www.actden.com/pp/
Portfolios
www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/pid/494 Assessment tools category edna
This national initiative in the Vocational Education http://url.edna.edu.au/MUkN
and Training sector aims to establish a national ePortfolio standards category edna
standards-based approach to the use of e-portfolio http://url.edna.edu.au/zDW2
technologies for managing learner information,
between VET, other educational sectors and ruBISTAR
employment. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
SACE Board of South Australia vodPod - ePortfolio movies
http://www.saceboard.sa.edu.au/newsace/plp.php http://url.edna.edu.au/RQ8V
has introduced a Personal Learning Plan accredited
for teaching in 2009 designed to develop students’ Google Docs
capabilities in which they “learn how to develop, http://docs.google.com/?pli=1
implement, review and adjust personal learning
goals and choices to prepare for their education and Balancing the Two Faces of ePortfolios
their future career and life pathways. http://docs.google.com/Doc?
id=dd76m5s2_0gh3j2vct
Evaluation of ePortfolios
ePortfolio maturity model
www.eportfoliopractice.qut.edu.au/docs/Aep_Final_
Report/appendix.pdf
The Australian ePortfolio Project produced a matrix
that enables institutions to measure their readiness
for or maturity level in use of ePortfolios.
Portfolios to Webfolios and Beyond: Levels Keeping informed
of Maturation me.edu.au ePortfolio community
www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm042.asp http://me.edu.au/c/eportfolio
Love, D, McKean, G, and Gathercoal, P (2004)
provide descriptions of developmental stages in ALTC Exchange community of practice
ePortfolio implementation. Educause Quarterly, www.altcexchange.edu.au/eportfolio-community-
Volume 27, no. 2 practice
Impact study of e-portfolios on learning
http://url.edna.edu.au/8DNy
BECTA 2007 UK research
ePortfolio tools
Moodle Portfolio options
http://www.moodleman.net/archives/48