Portfolios
Overview
Electronic portfolios have been gaining attention as a means of evaluating learning (teachers)...and of demonstrating learning (learners). An e-portfolio is a learner-owned, vibrant means of transferring learning into a personal marketing tool for employment. Instead of a static resume, an e-portfolio allows people the ability to communicate in the Internet/hyperlinked medium.
E-portfolios allow people to demonstrate learning and competency in a manner that is reflective of personal learning styles, creativity, and interest. Typically, the instructor sets the boundaries of how to demonstrate learning. With portfolios, the learner is in control. |
What
is a Portfolio?
"A portfolio is a collection of work developed across varied contexts
over time. The portfolio can advance learning by providing students and/or
faculty with a way to organize, archive and display pieces of work."
Directions
in Electronic Portfolio Development
"This article explores the advantages and trade-offs of two paths
to the development of electronic portfolios – using generic tools
and using customized systems. The analysis assumes that the goal of electronic
portfolios is to stay focused on the quality of work by a learner and
the valid alignment of their work to the standards and goals of education.
A comparison of the “best of all worlds” scenarios for both
approaches shows that the two approaches each have important strengths
that need to be weighed during the process of program planning."
Electronic
Portfolios and Student Learning
Links to various presentations on portfolios - including technology and
portfolios as an assessment tool.
E-Portfolio
Resource Page
This site is focused on helping learners understand the value of e-porfolios...and
presents the four stage process of portfolio development: collect, select,
reflect, connect.
Electronic
Portfolios - Resources for Higher Education
"With excerpts and links to websites featured in our newest best
seller, Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty,
and Institutional Learning, as well as a discussion site for individuals
interested in further information on electronic portfolios, a database
of institutions working with portfolios, and other resources, this site
offers a constellation of information around this very important new higher
education topic."
Electronic
Student Portfolios Webfolios
"Student portfolios are recognised as formative reflections of progress,
and also play an increasingly important role in summative assessment procedures.
The systematic compilation and presentation of teachers' observations
and student artefacts across the gamut of media ensures a high degree
of student involvement and invokes a more richly textured portrayal of
individual student achievement than that available through more traditional
forms of assessment."
Open Source Portfolio
Initiative
"The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a newly formed group
committed to working together on the development and use of openly shared
ePortfolio software code. Anyone interested in furthering work towards
this goal is welcome to join OSPI."
The
Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About?
"The term "electronic portfolio," or "ePortfolio,"
is on everyone's lips. We often hear it associated with assessment, but
also with accreditation, reflection, student resumes, and career tracking.
It's as if this new tool is the answer to all the questions we didn't
realize we were asking."
Online
Portfolio Workshops
Series of 10 mini-workshops (some only about a page in length) on various
components of portfolio design and presentation.
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