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E-portfolio Resources

ePortfolio Portal - http://www.deskootenays.ca/wilton/eportfolios/ - a good starting place for exploring e-portfolios - definitions and links to other sites.

Dr. Helen Barrett's Electronic Portfolios - http://electronicportfolios.org/ - site of one of the world's experts on e-portfolios.

Thoughts about Portfolios - http://www.uwsp.edu/Education/sslick/PORTO.HTM - a collection of quotes from people working with portfolios.

UBC Teaching ePortfolio - http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UBC_Teaching_EPortfolio - wiki site for teaching e-Portfolios at the University of British Columbia. "A collection of useful resources if you're building an e-Portfolio or just curious about said items."

e-Portfolio roundup - http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/2006/02/eportfolio_roun.html - EdTechUK article about the state of e-portfolios in the UK. February 2006.

MALTS e-learning, E-Portfolios - http://www.elearn.malts.ed.ac.uk/eportfolio/ - Robert Chmielewski. University of Edinburgh website for "Exploring e-portfolios for personal development - research project".

Specifying an e-Portfolio - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio/specifyinganeportfolio/index.htm - This 2003-2005 project was funded under the JISC MLEs for Lifelong Learning programme phase 2. Its aims were to achieve continuity between FE and HE progress files, to explore inter-institutional interoperability in order to further Widening Participation and to enable widespread use of enhanced learner information.

PDP Resources

QAA Guidelines for HE Progress Files - http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/progressFiles/guidelines/progfile2001.asp#pdp - direct link to the PDP section.

Centre for Recording Achievement - http://www.recordingachievement.org/ - Associate Centre of the Higher Education Academy offering a range of services to higher education institutions and their communities aimed at supporting the implementation of Progress Files, Personal Development Planning and e-portfolios.

A national review of emerging practice on the use of Personal Development Planning for postgraduate researchers - http://www.npc.org.uk/page/1098798304

Briefing Paper for Academic Colleagues on Personal Development Planning and Student Progress Files - http://www.aaps.ed.ac.uk/Committees/Senate/ugsc/Meetings/20042005/040921/PaperFPDP-BriefingPaper.htm - Roger Scrutton, Senatus Undergraduate Studies Committee, 21 September 2004.

Briefing on Employability and Progress Files/Personal Development Planning - http://www.postgrad.ed.ac.uk/pgskills/pdp0504.htm - from the University of Edinburgh's Transferable and Generic Research Skills Training Implementation Steering Group.

Articles

Designing e-Portfolios To Support Professional Teacher Preparation - http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=65 - Tu Tran, Robert Baker, and Margo Pensavalle. Because e-portfolios chronicle students' learning outcomes, they provide a picture of students' development that can be used in response to increased demands for assessment of student teachers and increasingly standards-based education.

Teacher Education Quarterly, vol 25, number 1: Teaching Portfolios in Teacher Education - http://www.teqjournal.org/backvols/1998/25_1/volume_25,_number_1.htm - an issue devoted to portfolios in teacher education. All articles available in PDF format.

elearnspace. Eportfolios - http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/eportfolios.htm - George Siemens. A general introduction to e-portfolios and their components, benefits and uses, and issues to consider.

The “Sticky” ePortfolio System: Tackling Challenges and Identifying Attributes - http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0442.asp?bhcp=1 - Ali Jafari

Overcoming Obstacles to Authentic ePortfolio Assessment - http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=10788&typeid=155 - Stephen Acker discusses some of the challenges involved in implementing an e-portfolio at an institutional level.

ePortfolio and Accessibility - http://axelrod.plus.com/moin/EpAccess - Andy Heath is inviting contributions to an online discussion about accessibility and e-portfolios.

Conflicting Paradigms in Electronic Portfolio Approaches - http://electronicportfolios.org/systems/paradigms.html - Helen Barrett and Judy Wilkerson.