The slides from the first Europortfolio UK chapter webinar

1. EUROPORTFOLIO: a European Network
of Eportfolio Experts and Practitioners
the UK Chapter
Project Europortfolio: a European Network of Eportfolio Experts and Practitioners (EPNET)
Ref. no. 531312-LLP-1-2012-1-HR-KA3-KA3NW, Agreement no. 2012-4138/001-001
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

2. WHO ARE WE?
• EUROPORTFOLIO Project consortium
1. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics,
Croatia (coordinator)
2. ADPIOS, France
3. Centre for Recording Achievement, UK (working with Jisc).
4. AGH University of Science and Technology Centre of e-Learning,
Poland
5. Danube University Krems, Austria
6. University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
7. Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain
8. TLT Group (NCEPR), USA
• Associated partners (21+)
• Global EUROPORTFOLIO (ePortfolio) community
285 registered members, 49 countries
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3. OUR MAIN GOAL ...
... to establish a European Cooperation Network of experts
and practitioners in the field of ePortfolios from four
sectors :
 Further and Higher Education
 Vocational Education and Training
 Employment — human resources management, career
counsellors, etc.
 Lifelong Learning — all the actors of non-formal and informal
learning
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4. HOW DO WE WORK- BY DEVELOPING?
1. A wide network of committed stakeholders across
nations and sectors, including ePortfolio experts, researchers,
practitioners, educational institutions and leaders, employers,
policy experts and policy makers as well as interested
communities such as school networks
2. A fully self-sustainable Europortfolio Learning
Community Portal:
 ePortfolio Practices and Models;
 series of National and Thematic Executive Reports;
 Open Educational Resources;
 a series of ePortfolio Implementation Guides (good practice, policies,
implementation strategies);
 an ePortfolio maturity matrix model (self-assessment, benchmarking,
further development);
 an evidence-based ePortfolio framework that contributes to the
recognition and accreditation of competencies within EU-27 countries.
3. A series of local ‘Chapters’ to take work forward
across eportfolio platforms.
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5. GETTING INVOLVED…
Europortfolio: a European network working to create a
sustainable online community of e-portfolio practitioners.
Open to all using, or wishing to use, technology effectively
and appropriately:
• to increase the potential for valuing learning and achievements
through greater visibility and transparency
• to capture, recognise, interpret and integrate learning and
achievements (both formal and non-formal) and
• thereby to allow learners to contextualise, develop and manage
their personal trajectories.
Sharing – learning – developing
But… why join (another) ePortfolio
group?
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6. ACTIVELY - VIA www.Europortfolio.org
• Express support – join by registering and become a
member by signing the Europortfolio Charter.
• Contribute your ideas and experiences, plus
information about publications and events you are
running, to the Europortfolio Portal and/or
Newsletter
• Join - or lead – one of our Open Webinars (three so
far).
• Collaborate with others with similar interests (soon
to be implemented via the portal).
• Influence/participate in UK Chapter activities.
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7. BY KEEPING IN TOUCH – via membership of
an existing UK eportfolio list…
• You will get notified of webinars and other events.
• Still need to sign via the Portal to attend.
Our next steps:
• A UK e-portfolio survey (updating the 2005 survey)
with the possibility of replicating this across
Europortfolio...
• Next Europortfolio Webinar Tuesday 27th May.
‘How could Open Badges transform ePortfolio practice and
technologies?’
(We plan one Webinar per month for the duration of the Project).
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