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E-portfolio technology has often been labeled as “ready before its time.” In truth, e-portfolios have not fulfilled–yet–the potential that their most fervent supporters see in the technology. A group of e-portfolio experts and campus IT leaders now has plans to hit the “reflect button by coming” together to review e-portfolio discussions in which they took […]
“Campuses are so much more sophisticated about ePortfolios now!” –ePortfolio vendor, September 2012 In the last three months, I talked with a large majority of global ePortfolio industry leaders. I was surprised at how much the industry had changed and how large the scale of implementation is compared to a year ago. Campus Technology Full […]
“The CMS became the IMS became the LMS became…” A few short years from now, what will we tell our children about the storied past of the LMS? What will it become? In the 1990s, the course management system (CMS) emerged to help faculty manage their courses through the Web. The name morphed to IMS […]
An institutional electronic portfolio called the iPortfolio had over 17,000 subscribers one year after its introduction at an Australian university. This paper reports on a study to determine how students use these iPortfolio accounts, and factors leading to uptake and effective use. Self-assessed competence with technology skills, factors motivating uptake, and barriers to adoption were […]
Abstract: “ePerformance: Crafting, Rehearsing, and Presenting the ePortfolio Persona” exposes vital intersections between pedagogy and performance to reveal how using ePortfolio encourages not only student-centered learning, but facilitates collaboration through cooperative exchanges. Productive interactivity with audiences who actively influence process, content, and outcomes displaces classroom hierarchies and the passive absorption of predetermined material. It is […]
