Issues in Developing and Implementing ePortfolios

Graham Attwell

Issues in developing and implementing e-

portfolios

What is the purpose of an e-Portfolio?

assessment portfolios

presentation portfolio

Personal Development planning

Personal learning portfolio

the development and implementation of e-Portfolios reflects an engagement by the

education and training systems and institutions

with changing demands for

education through society and with changing forms of learning reflected through the use of

social software.

Drivers of change include more student centred pedagogic approaches, more flexible programme provision, a greater emphasis on lifelong learning, and a move toward competence based assessment.

issues

Changes in teaching and learning

Learning is a process of becoming rather than a process of acquiring

Stephen Downes

The way networks learn is the way people learn…

• they are both complex systems• the organization of each depends on connections

Connectivism (George Siemens)

Stephen Downes

• Learner centered

Learning is centered around the interests of the learner

Learning is owned by the learner

This implies learner choice of subjects, materials, learning styles

The Concept

Stephen Downes

Connected Learning

The computer connects the student to the rest of the worldLearning occurs through connections with other learnersLearning is based on conversation and interaction

Stephen Downes

who provides the e-portfolio?

who owns the e-portfolioe-portfolio

open or closed?

PlanningValidatingAssessingRecording

RecognisingReflectingPresenting

VerifyingModeratingAccreditingCertifying

External world Learner

Quality standards

e-Portfolios

Who owns the e-Portfolio?

who can access the e-Portfolio and for what purposes?

what should an e-portfolio contain?

How do we represent and recognise informal learning?

how can we facilitate reflection

The challenge is to somehow encourage students to spend more time on this reflection stage, exploring more what they have done/achieved. I suspect that this would help them to design more useful plans and, by thinking about their learning, become that elusive better learner.”

reflection is always a fiction where students write specifically

to the needs of the tutor.

Forming an opinionExpressing and opinionArticulating and opinionJustifying an opinionDefending an opinionSupporting opinions of otherChallenging others’ opinionsQuestioning othersSeeking clarificationRepresenting others opinionsBuilding on others’ opinionsSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinionSorting fact from opinion

The development of reflection through e-Portfolios may work best in project-based learning and when reflection is linked to activities

Assessment for learning or assessment of learning

group assessment and authentic assessment

Scott Wilson

Thank you for listening

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