Thinking about ePortfolios

1. What is an eportfolio?
What is it for?

2. • Assessment
Types of ePortfolio
– Demonstrate student competency and skills. Educators and
peers can provide comments and feedback
• Development
– Of students' educational goals, providing evidence of the
advancement of knowledge and skills. Can provide support
for personal development too
• Showcase
– Demonstrate exemplary assignments and other work, as
well as student skills. Designed for potential employers or
educators and can be used instead of, or to supplement
one's CV.
“In most cases ePortfolios are not used for a single purpose.
Instead, they tend to combine 2–3 types of portfolios thus
creating a Hybrid portfolio” Balaban, I.; Bubas, G., (2010)

3. Suggested Levels of Portfolio Use
• Level 1 & 2: Scrapbook & Curriculum Vitae
• Level 3: Curriculum Collaboration
– Students can share views with peers, tutors & employers
and receive comments
• Level 4: Mentoring
– Educators are intensely engaged in guidance & feedback
• Level 5: Authentic Evidence for Assessment, Evaluation, and
Reporting
– Structured, organised, used for assessment & feedback
Based on Love et al (2004) cited in Balaban, I.; Bubas, G., (2010)
“Because of its features, ePortfolio offers support for reflection,
which is one of its main advantages over other systems”

4. The eportfolio can help:
• To externalize learners’ ideas and thoughts.
• To understand other students’ ideas
• To deepen their knowledge by combining other’s ideas and
thoughts.
Sawazaki, T. & Tanaka, Y. (2013).

5. MyPortfolio Today
• Available to all users with a Warwick account:
myportfolio.warwick.ac.uk
mahara.warwick.ac.uk
• Tools include:
– File store
– Plan
– Journal
– Options to edit and create pages & collections
– Incorporate external content

6. MyPortfolio is a user-centric portfolio tool
The user decides who can view any content

7. Academic Development & Careers
Personal
Sport Chess
Club
CV
The same resources can appear in multiple pages

8. Getting started using MyPortfolio is easy:
• Visit http://myportfolio.warwick.ac.uk
• Login
• Explore and experiment

9. References
• Love et al (2004) cited in Balaban, I.; Bubas, G., "Educational potentials of
ePortfolio systems: Student evaluations of Mahara and Elgg," Information
Technology Interfaces (ITI), 2010 32nd International Conference on , vol.,
no., pp.329,336, 21-24 June 2010
• Sawazaki, T. & Tanaka, Y. (2013). Designing Courses based on SECI model
with Mahara, e-Portfolio. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare,
and Higher Education 2013 (pp. 1355-1358). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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