There is a problem but it is hard to pin down. It has to do with the tension between institutional and individual agendas. For the moment the eportfolio movement is driven by institutional agendas. The institutions may be concrete ones: particular universities, particular departments of government, particular companies and so on. The institutions may also be abstractions of these: education, employment, government, society.
Other institutions show little interest in eportfolios as such. (read more here)
December 2005
December 06, 2005
Posted by eportfolios - George Roberts | 0 comment(s)
December 18, 2005
We built an eportfolio in 2000 for use by teacher education students in our college. We used what we felt, at the time, was the easiest technology for our students to learn and use so they didn't have to concentrate so much on the technology that they didn't have time to concentrate on their course work. We now have over 2000 students with online eportfolios.
Needless to say, online technology has advanced greatly since 2000 and we are looking at evolving to a more advanced system to take advantage of web2.0 technologies. Our current system is a "static" website system. If you are interested in learning more about our current system, do a google search on my last name combined with eportfolio and frontpage and you will find a paper published in Essays in Education with a complete description of our current system.
I have been working on customizing Moodle to serve as a replacement for our current system and have made good progress on this. We want to move to a system that does provide a place for students to create a standards-based eportfolio (one that they will enjoy creating and value) and at the same time provide a means for administrative assessment of the eportfolio.
I have just now found Elgg and it has caught my attention due to the eportfolio potential and community building potential. It seems to have some key features that will appeal to students...seems very similiar to the hughly popular "facebook" that all our students are crazy about.
I'm looking forward to diving into this software and exploring the potential.
Needless to say, online technology has advanced greatly since 2000 and we are looking at evolving to a more advanced system to take advantage of web2.0 technologies. Our current system is a "static" website system. If you are interested in learning more about our current system, do a google search on my last name combined with eportfolio and frontpage and you will find a paper published in Essays in Education with a complete description of our current system.
I have been working on customizing Moodle to serve as a replacement for our current system and have made good progress on this. We want to move to a system that does provide a place for students to create a standards-based eportfolio (one that they will enjoy creating and value) and at the same time provide a means for administrative assessment of the eportfolio.
I have just now found Elgg and it has caught my attention due to the eportfolio potential and community building potential. It seems to have some key features that will appeal to students...seems very similiar to the hughly popular "facebook" that all our students are crazy about.
I'm looking forward to diving into this software and exploring the potential.
Keywords: e-portfolio, electronic portfolio, eportfolio
Posted by eportfolios - Steve Hyndman | 3 comment(s)
