e-Portfolio
Basics: What is an e-portfolio?
A portfolio is a collection of work developed across varied contexts over time. The portfolio can advance learning by providing students and/or faculty with a way to organize, archive and display pieces of work.
The electronic format allows faculty and other professionals to evaluate student portfolios using technology, which may include the Internet, CD-ROM, video, animation or audio. Electronic portfolios are becoming a popular alternative to traditional paper-based portfolios because they offer practitioners and peers the opportunity to review, communicate and assess portfolios in an asynchronous manner.
A portfolio is a collection of work developed across varied contexts over time. The portfolio can advance learning by providing students and/or faculty with a way to organize, archive and display pieces of work.
The electronic format allows faculty and other professionals to evaluate student portfolios using technology, which may include the Internet, CD-ROM, video, animation or audio. Electronic portfolios are becoming a popular alternative to traditional paper-based portfolios because they offer practitioners and peers the opportunity to review, communicate and assess portfolios in an asynchronous manner.
Most
people are familiar with student portfolios, however, higher education
institutions are starting to create departmental and institutional portfolios
as a means for evaluating student learning on a more global level. Institutional
portfolios provide a means of assessing the impact of the entire educational
experience on student learning. They can be used to drive internal improvement
and external accountability. Like student portfolios, they allow for internal
improvement and external accountability, but on the level of the whole
institution.
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