eLearning For Teachers: Di Goodman (Epoff)

Learning Technologies 2008 Conference

Friday 7th November

Using ePortfolios to support delivery (Brisbane TAFE)

Roxanne Cooley and Anthea Leggett’s workshop:

An ePortfolio: a “digitised collection of personal information”

An ePortfolio is a good way to connect industry workers to educators, to recognise the experience, skills and knowledge needed in the workplace.

In education it can be used for:

1. SET plans - learning plans about goal setting

2.xUniversity graduates - CVs and research evidence

3. VET - competency achievements

How to create an ePortfolio:

- Record, aggregrate and fasten artefacts

- Publish and present

- Invite selected audiences to view and comment

- Personal reflection and comment

They are trialling an ePortfolio project whereby IT workers can be nationally accredited via RPL and ePortfolios. They have established connections between:

- Industry

- Educators

- Project sponsors

- Learners

The Australian Flexible Learning Framework website has lots of information on ePortfolios. Its focus is to evaluate the effectiveness of the EPortfolio tool.

5 processes are involved in creating an ePortfolio:

1. Collect

2. Select

3.Reflect

4. Project

5. Present