I’ve been invited to be part of a panel talking about eportfolios this week at the Canadian eLearning Conference (nee WebCT conference) and taking the role of the instructional designer, I’ve been thinking about eportfolios and some of the things that I might say are/might be guided by:
If they are implemented in more than on class, the eport becomes something that belongs to the student, it enables transfer between the topic areas that involved and because there is a “product” at the end of the day that the students can take ownership of.
Students go from “not another blogging assignment” or “not another portfolio system” to, where do I put this and make it really show off what I can do.
This of course means that for the instructor, they have to understand that they are sharing students with other instructors and that the student’s evaluation of the elements of their overall portfolio may see your content never appearing on the front page unless there is a really good reason for this. A knock to the ego? Perhaps? Good for the student? Certainly.
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