This document discusses ePortfolios, which are digital collections of artifacts that demonstrate a person's learning and abilities. It defines ePortfolios and distinguishes between developmental, assessment, and showcase ePortfolios. Developmental ePortfolios show skill progression over time, assessment ePortfolios evaluate competence, and showcase ePortfolios display skills and work. Examples provided include a CMALT portfolio that is both a public showcase and private assessment, and a LinkedIn page that is developmental and validated by colleagues. Key drivers for ePortfolios include supporting workplace learning and robust assessment of this learning. A systematic review found benefits of ePortfolios include improved knowledge, self-awareness, reflection, and student-tutor relationships, but that ensuring

1. Introduction to ePortfolio’s

2. What is a portfolio?
“ Simply a collection of documents relating to
a learner’s progress, development and
achievements ”
Beetham, 2005

3. What is an ePortfolio?
“ An e-portfolio is a purposeful
aggregation of digital items –
ideas, evidence, reflections,
feedback etc, which ‘presents’ a
selected audience with evidence
of a person’s learning and/ or
ability.”
Sutherland and Powell (2007)

4. ePortfolio typology : Developmental
Developmental Portfolios
•demonstrate the progression of skills over time
•displays the journey towards competence /
capability
•acts as a medium between student and faculty

5. ePortfolio typology : Assessment
Assessment Portfolios:
•These portfolios are popular with professional skill
development
•Used reasonably widely in work based education
•Are used to evaluate student competence and
capability

6. ePortfolio typology : Showcase
Showcase portfolio’s
•To show off and demonstrate the students
skills and work to date.
•This purpose is public facing to display a level of
competence / capability and socially profile
themselves

7. Example of Showcase and Assessment
CMALT portfolio
•Both Public facing showing off my skills and
projects but also to submit for assessment for
Certified Membership of Association of Learning
Technologist’s
•Created using Google Sites

8. Example of Showcase and
Developmental
Linkedin page:
•List of competences
•List of projects
•Validated by professional colleagues

9. ePortfolio Taxonomy of functionality
Validity
Community
Reflection
Curation
Buckley (me) (2012)

10. Pertinent Drivers
• Supporting workplace learning
• The need for robust and valid assessment
of this learning
• To encourage the reflective practitioner
and a lifelong learner

11. Systematic Review on use of ePortfolio’s
in undergraduate education
‘Higher quality' papers identify improvements in
knowledge and understanding, increased self-
awareness and engagement in reflection and
improved student-tutor relationships as the
main benefits of portfolio use.
S Buckley (i.e. not me), (2009)

12. Systematic Review on use of ePortfolio’s
in undergraduate education
However, they also suggest that whilst portfolios
encourage students to engage in reflection, the
quality of those reflections cannot be assumed and
that the time commitment required for portfolio
completion may detract from other learning or
deter students from engaging with the process
unless required to do so by the demands of
assessment.
S Buckley (i.e. not me), (2009)

13. Pitfalls
REAL LIFE – Is it all or nothing?
http://www.rcog.org.uk
/catalog/book/
pocket-logbook
RESPONDING TO CHANGE
Sometimes people want more individualisation
than you can realistically give everyone

14. NHS ePortfolio revolution
The NHS ePortfolio Revolution starts here
This site exists to generate discussion and
collate opinions on the experience of using
the NHS ePortfolio. It exists to persuade
"people in charge" that they need to invest in
making the ePortfolio better because you
matter, your training matters, and your time is
too valuable to waste ticking boxes. ***

15. Where do we start?
We start with looking at what we have
• What does it consist of …
• What is it good at …
• What is it bad at …
• What has been requested
• Who views what
• Does it incorporate work based assessment
• What implication does capability have?
• Do we need to prescribe one?
• Is the solution a technological one …

16. Example Systems
• Action Plan: Practice Assessment
Management System
• Pebble Pad
• Mahara
• NES NHS ePortfolios
• Blackboard

17. Bibliography
Beetham, H (2005) e-Portfolios in post 16 learning in the UK:
developments, issues and opportunities.
At: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/eportfolio_ped.doc (a
ccessed 26/07/07)
Buckley, S (2009), The educational effects of portfolios on
undergraduate student learning: a Best Evidence Medical Education
(BEME) systematic review. BEME Guide No. 11. [Med Teach. 2009]
Sutherland, S. and Powell, A. (2007), CETIS SIG mailing list discussions
[Online] Available at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?
A1=ind0707&L=CETIS-PORTFOLIO#3 (Accessed: 13 August 2012)