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Interesting Alan; I was musing last night about how crucial the role of *some form* of assessment (including peer, self, formative etc.) is, to help define what 'eportfolio' is. This would help us differentiate general 'purposes'(like MySpace?) from 'learning/education/accreditation' purposes and also to see the enhancement that 'eportfolio' brings to simple data transfer? Is the word 'evidence' in the definitions sufficient to include the concept of assessment? Forgive me if I have missed or laboured a point, this has been very useful and as Peter has described, complements the Becta work nicely. regards Terri Kinnison Becta 14-19 Policy Adviser -----Original Message----- From: e-portfolio practitioners and developers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Paull Sent: 10 July 2007 13:12 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: A model relating eportfolios: Becta I strongly believe that the influence in the areas you mention, Peter, will be from admissions tutors and others involved in APEL, or other staff involved in "transition as a learning experience", rather than applying to HE as an administrative function. I don't believe there is a good argument for ePortfolios in transition as an administrative function, in fact rather the opposite, I fear. I don't think there is yet general acceptance that transition to HE is more than an administrative process; for example if a university department with a recruiting course sets a relatively low points or grades offer and makes automatic offers on that basis, I would contend that it is encouraging an attitude towards admissions as an administrative or filtering process, rather than a learning experience. Alan -- Alan Paull ---------- APS Ltd, 58 Norton Wood, Forest Green, Nailsworth, Stroud, Glos GL6 0HG Tel: 01453 835009; Fax: 01453 834467; Mobile: 07977 120886 Email: [log in to unmask]; Web: www.alanpaull.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: e-portfolio practitioners and developers > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Rees Jones > Sent: 10 July 2007 12:24 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: A model relating eportfolios: Becta > > I like where this definition has ended up. > > Terri asks how this relates to discussions within the Becta > eP Expert Group. > > John Winkley (Alpha Plus) has made 2 excellent reports on > ePortfolio, the first for DfES, which included a review of > the ePortfolio Reference Model, the second recently for Becta > on ePortfolio and assessment. > > His view is that ePortfolio is at a stage where it could be > widely implemented to support transitions and assessment but > that the point of e-Portfolio is to improve learning. > However ePortfolio does not appear to be close to the point > where it could be widely implemented to improve learning. > His recommendation is that this should be a priority. > > How does the Shane/Andy definition help with this? > > My personal view is that learning is implict in many > activities that don't wear a learning badge: on one level > applying to HE through UCAS is an administrative activity but > it should be an important learning experience for any Year > 12: the use of ePortfolio should make this explicit. > > A fundamental pattern lies behind UCAS and similar processes, > and is most evident in recruiting rather than selecting > scenarios: accreditation of prior experiential learning. HE > APeL processes often attract credit as an assessed learning > activity as well as identifying skills and knowledge that the > learner has gained without formal qualifications which > satisfy course pre-requisites. > > APeL is where learning, assessment and transition use of > ePortfolio meet. > > Processes that do not wear an APel badge are often founded on > this pattern, for example students without first degrees on > Diploma courses who upgrade to taught postgraduate. > > Several LLNs are actively reviewing this area. > > Two minor points by the by: > > 1) A current UCAS application is not (yet) a presentation > that conforms to the definition. > > 2) Terri notes the difference with WBL and 14-19 > presentations greater emphasis on non textual evidence: > presumably this is something that UCAS will need to catch up > with and to a limited extent does cover in "Route B" and > perhaps for their new conservatory service? This is an > obvious area for JISC(-CETIS) to help with. > > ________________________________ > > From: Andy Powell > Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 18:09 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: A model relating eportfolios to [portfolio] tools? > > > > So, I think I'm inclined to stick with my original offering > > "An eportfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital items - > > ideas, evidence, reflections, feedback, data etc - which > > 'present' a selected audience with information about the > > subject of that eportfolio". For me the 'purposeful' > > indicates intent - more often than not explicit intent. > > Shane, > Apologies. I don't have much disagreement with your wording... in my > blog entry I'd just tried to come up with something simpler - but I > probably went too far!? > > Having said that, I don't much like your use of "information about the > subject of that eportfolio" because it seems rather weak. Isn't the > 'evidence of learning and/or ability' part important? It is also > dangerous (in my experience) to leave example lists in definitions, > since some people will take them to be an enumeration of all the > possibilities. > > Tweaking yours slightly gives: > > "An e-portfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital items which > 'presents' a selected audience with evidence of a person's learning > and/or ability." > > I had the slightly shorter: > > "An e-portfolio is a digital collection of creative work, designed to > show evidence of learning and/or ability." > > but I think my 'show evidence' is your 'present' and my 'designed' is > your 'purposeful' - so I don't actually think there's much difference > between them? Your 'selected audience' bit is helpful but is missing > from mine. > > Andy > -- > Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation > http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/ > http://efoundations.typepad.com/ > [log in to unmask] > +44 (0)1225 474319 >