Educause Webcast: Current State of e-Portfolios

by Trent Batson
Website: http://www.educause.edu/LIVE0513

The core value of e-Portfolio is *student ownership*

–> eventually lead to life-long learning

Uses for e-Portfolios:

# Individual reflective portfolio
# advising management system
# resume builder
# faculty portfolio
# showcase portfolio
# identity development portfolio
# assessment management

Motivation coming from: School of Education

Work retained by students in an Assessment Management System; produces reports through aggregations of these students’ portfolios.

National e-portfolios (workforce portfolio):

* for life-long learning
* documenting/record experience one has
* more than the academic community

*The e-Portfolio Market*

# iWebfolio
# Folio
# e-Portfolio – Chalk and Wire
# FolioLive – McGraw Hill
# WebFolio Builder – TaskStream
# College Live Text
# Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium
# True Outcomes
# Masterfile e-Portfolio Manager – Concord
# Angel e-Portfolio – Angel Learning
# Blackboard
# TK-20
# OSP 2
# efolio — Avenet

*Implementation Models*

# subscription – students buy an account on a remotely hosted portfolio for a resume-builder
# subscription plus installed by client on site
# open source
# buy the license and support services

*Which have Assessment Management Systems:*

* nuventive, with Trac Dat
* Chalk and Wire, with Rubric Marker
* TaskStream
* College LiveText
* True Outcomes
* OSP 2.0, r*smart [reporting tools in 2.1]
* Angel [reporting tools in next release]

*Cautions*

* Market shake out
* Should enterprise e-portfolio be hosted off0campus?
* Is open source as sustainable at the application level as at server level?
* Demand and expectations ahead of market
* No definitions; no standard e-portfolio lexicon
* e-portfolio for life makes it harder to switch
* portability: can keep student files in a university digital repository, but may lose:
** comments
** association with learning goal
** and perhaps permissions
* check for compliance with IMS e-Portfolio specification 1.0

*Tips*

* It will all mean nothing if students aren’t taught how to do “folio thinking” and how to build an e-portfolio
* and will succeed if faculty use the production of e-portfolio as the main project in the course
* student ownership

*Websites*

* www.educause.edu/ELI/5524
* www.eportconsortium.org
* www.ibritt.com/resources/stu_eportfolios.htm
* Helen Barrett