ePortfolios and the personalisation agenda
Find out more about me & the RSC West Midlands here : http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/
WIKI Summary
This wiki has been set up to disseminate and share any resources, thoughts, weblinks, projects, ideas, best practice, etc, with anyone associated with HE and HE in FE. The idea is to use this as a one stop shop for anything associated with the wider remit of the personalisation agenda and widening particiaption in HE. To be fuilly inclusive I have also included a page dedicated to FE based digital Personal Learning Plans (PLP). Similar types of ePortfolios are also being utilised by work based learners (WBL) to record achievment and reflect upon progress.
Contents
A ) This page
1) ePortfolio basics
2) UK funded projects (JISC, HEA, etc) - strategic push and research
3) web links to further reading
4) thoughts and reflections on eportfolios
B) Personalised Learning Plans, page eportfolio-ILP (PLP, was ILP!)
C) e-Portfolio tools eportfolio-tools (some with free demo accounts)
D) Electronic Personal Development Planning eportfolios-ePDP (ePDP)
D) 
My del.icio.us weblinks covering eportfolios - this is frequently updated - inlcuding the new Moodle ones, mystuff, mahara, exabis, ezefolio,etc....
ePortfolio basics
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A new HEA publication (Sept 2007) called Supporting Student eportfolios - A physical sciences practice guide - is out. I scanned through this the other day and it's a very good overview of current practice & tools. Well worth buying for anyone interested in this subject.
Author: Tracey Madden. University of Hull, Chemistry dep't. www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci
ISBN 978-1-903815-19-9
Exemplar eportflios
Web based Resources and further sources of information and guidance
- For information on many of the JISC projects and their outputs (though some final reports are last year’s), see http://del.icio.us/jiscdel
- A 2007 PHd research study in student preception of eports by Dr. Cathy Higgins .
The study focused on student engagement with digital portfolios among eighth graders in New Hampshire (USA) public schools. It was a mixed methods study with state assessment data, student perceptions data, portfolio analysis of 18 student portfolios, and interviews with 6 students at 2 schools. Feel free to read summary at http://www.thinkict.org/academic.htm and contact me if you’d like more info.
Dr. Cathy Higgins .
State Educational Technology Director/Title IID Coordinator NH Department of Education .
http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=211 (April 08).
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My blog post also references the
paper entitled " Beyond the Blog: getting the right level of structure in an ePortfolio to support learning"
This report recognises the importance of the Dearing recommendations and the use of a student progress file to record progress. This report also discusses alternative ways of assessing progress using eportfolios, and the emergence of ePDP and personal learning spaces. Read the full 68 page report here:
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The JISC / DEfes strategy for personalisation
A good first point to find out the current status on UK research & practice.
http://www.recordingachievement.org/ < CRA news page >
These JISC & CETIS resources provide a very good primer covering the basics of eportfolios & their implementation
This link contains some useful info regarding recording qualifications, see Page 13 for more useful links
A UK portal covering all thing eportfolio related
Efficient assessment of portfolios (OU and CRA project : Janet Strivens)
Nottingham University have a CETL on eportfolios, with plenty of up-to-date information
Take a look at these 2 papers on reflection & eportfolios
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You should also contact Julie Hughes who is a leading practitioner of Eportfolios and works for Wolverhampton University and ESCalate. Julie uses and encourages deeper/reflective learning methods as a result of implementing pebblepad with her trainee teachers.
JISC / CETIS funded projects
- A student perspective - a video created for the "In their own words" JISC publication. It features two Wolverhampton University based practitioners (Julie Hughes & Emma Purnell View it online here http://www.vimeo.com/338780
Other national UK initiatives & research
recent HEA (2007) UK survey on the use of eportfolios, including links to current projects
The QAA website has a very good page on creating a framework for PDP
The report conducted in 2005 that summarised the status of research. UK: report to the JISC e-learning and pedagogy strand.
2007 reports
In case you haven’t come across these already – recently been published e-portfolio related reports;
- Two papers that supported the "in their own words" JISC projects;
- The first is a report commissioned by Becta and led by Elizabeth Hartnell-Young from the University of Nottingham, around the impact of e-portfolios on learning. It covers schools and FE – and references three previous JISC projects, ePistle, MyWorld and the Loughborough College project. This is available at: http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_rp_02&rid=14007
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Thoughts & reflections
As a result of a West Midlands workshop (May 2007) I ran in conjunction with RSC East Midlands (Ben Williams), which was funded by the HEA (Ian Lindsay), I wrote some down my thoughts on the intrinsic differences between the FE requirements for a very prescriptive ILP and a much more "free form" reflective HE eportfolio. This short piece entitled "ePortfolios Vs eProgress" can be seen on my HE web site (news section) here > http://www.rsc-wm.ac.uk/?4776.
All presentations from that day can be accessed from the HEA (HE in FE) page here > http://www.engsc.ac.uk/nef/events/eportfolios23-05-07.asp
is the monlithic VLE now considered as just a museum for handouts? Personal learning spaces are the new prentender! Derek Morrisons Aricule blog discusses this rumour mill.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pMachine/morriblog_more.php?id=519_0_4_0_M
- A new inititive by Birmingham Adult Ed>>> “Funded by the European Social Fund, this initiative is testing since 2001 new ways of tackling discrimination and inequality experienced by those in work and those looking for a job.” This Digital CV project promotes the use of video CV's. The CV's were distributed on CD-ROM, but could quite easily be uploaded to a private shareable eportfolio. Perhaps they are already thinking along these lines? Contact Mary Clarke, Chair - Transnational Improving Skills Group.
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REDHALO!! This UK inititative is offering every British school child 1 GB of free, ultra secure, personal learning space that they can use for online collaboration. This is long overdue, but also paves the way for such a space to allow the storage of a personal eportfolio system!! Where are these spaces for all of our UK students? The LSC needs to make this happen for e-portfolios to really make an impact across all sectors. Becta called for this a few years ago! We are still waiting with baited breath. Apprarently the delay is connected with the issuing of a unique student ID number that will be utilised for all life long learning/CPD activities. www.redhalo.com
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