e-portfolios: for students or teachers?
In this month’s Educause Quarterly javier Ayala has an interesting article on electronic portfolios. He suggests that most e-portfolio efforts so far are approached from the perspective of faculty and staff. Perhaps greater success and adoption will be gained by looking at student needs and desires, and using that as a starting point. It only makes sense — after all it is the student’s portfolio. For my money learning management systems fall victim to this problem as well. We need to be providing students with tools that cut across all their courses, and allow them to build a resource that they can take with them upon graduation and continue to use for learning post-graduation. I think the concept of e-portfolios is a step in the right direction. But we need to keep student’s needs central to these efforts.
Electronic Portfolios for Whom?
San Jose State University — videos, pdf and powerpoint documents from a recent campus conference on e-portfolios. I wonder how many students were there?
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