Mastering E-Portfolios for Enhanced Assessment

Using e-portfolios for alternative assessment A guide for the weary teacher Sirin Soyoz and Suzanne Mordue No, it’s the same old stuff online with added clipart. As though I don’t have enough to do… E-portfolios? Is that a spelling mistake or what?

'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’ e-portfoliosJICS

“The future demands skilled, digitally aware learners with the capacity to participate in learning throughout their life, using technologies of their own choosing”. Learning literacies in a digital age JISC

“There is a push to free student work from paper and to make it organized, searchable, and transportable” Batson, T: 2002 “Use of technology can no longer be purely course-based but more varied ways of expression using learning technologies should be investigated” Becta, 'Emerging Technologies for Learning’: 2008

“E-portfolios are not discrete, they are part of the system” Impact of E-portfolios on learning Becta

Sub-skills • Goal setting • Engagement • Motivation • ICT skills • Reflection • Collaboration • Feedback • Self-esteem • Self-confidence • Progression • Lifelong learning • Becta, 2008

Portfolio tools

Responses

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/eportfolios.aspxhttp://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/e-portfolioshttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/eportfolios.aspxhttp://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/e-portfolios

Thank you  Sirin Soyoz Sirin.Soyoz@britishcouncil.org.tr Suzanne Mordue Suzanne.Mordue@britishcouncil.org.tr

Mastering E-Portfolios for Enhanced Assessment