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Tyrone, You are so right! "Everyone does that which is right in his own eyes." I must declare an interest in that I promote an ePortfolio system, eFolio. However, I am more interested in promoting a good understanding of ePortfolio practice. ePortfolios are used or abused in many different ways and in many cases are almost self-defeating in that they are institutionally based. This immediately raises a problem of portability that 'interoperability' does not really address. Several years ago I was researching VLEs for a report for Becta and discovered that there are over 40+ VLEs available for UK educators and yet most FE/HE institutions go for one of my least favourites! One of the outcomes of my research, some 4 years ago, was that no-one in the UK had a clear understanding of the full range of facilities that make an ePortfolio acceptable to all. One early paper that I wrote sums up my initial expectations of an ePortfolio: http://maximise-ict.co.uk/Prime%20Directives-2.pdf JISC, with all its magnificence, tended to promote the use of ePortfolios as an in-house system without any real perception of Lifelong, Lifewide learning, 5-95, or 'from sperm to worm'. On several occasions I have read comments such as, "Why should I bother with an ePortfolio - I cannot take it with me!" Assessment bodies have similar narrow perceptions of what an ePortfolio should be, ie, for the delivery of a single course of study and nothing else - which again fails to recognise one of the fundamentals of an ePortfolio, that of being able to view 'the whole person'. I could go on, but perhaps this is not the place. One further document which might be of some help: http://issuu.com/efoliouk/docs/a_bridge_too_far3 best read in 'Full Screen' mode. Please see my blog for further ideas: <http://www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/> http://www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/ Ray Tolley FEIDCT, NAACE Fellow, ACQI, MBILD ICT Education Consultant Maximise ICT Ltd P: <http://raytolley.v2efolioworld.mnscu.edu/> http://raytolley.efolioworld.com/ B: <http://www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/> http://www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/ W: <http://www.maximise-ict.co.uk/eFolio-01.htm> http://www.maximise-ict.co.uk/eFolio-01.htm I: http://issuu.com/efoliouk/docs S: http://www.slideshare.net/maximise/presentations T: http://twitter.com/efolio Winner of the IMS 'Leadership Regional Award 2009' From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tyrone Knight Sent: 25 October 2010 16:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [VLES] VLE's / E-Learning / E-Portfolios Dear All, I have been the Administrator at a FE/HE college now for 10 months. As I encourage more usage and train staff accordingly, I am finding a few issues are arising. Departments are being externally verified, and the EV's are encouraging course leaders and departments to build on good examples that they are seeing and to expand on their over-all VLE usage (Blackboard), especially in the sense of Assessments and to some degree E-Portfolios. My concern is that now departments are now going fully over to the VLE system, without enough assessment guidance from such EV's. Resources are being purchased, decisions are not being properly considered and there seems to be a lack of general structure. I can only train staff on how to work the tools available, and hint at possible issues / consequences where I can. I am presuming that a group in our college needs to be discussing these issues and providing concrete answers, but I would like to present some ideas, research and possible guidelines before hand. But where would the EV's get their information from, regarding good practice etc. As useful it seems nothing is set in stone. 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