The document discusses the establishment of the Croatian e-portfolio chapter in September 2013. It aims to synthesize e-portfolio work in Croatia and neighboring countries and create an online community. The chapter has promoted e-portfolios' educational and career benefits through workshops and presentations. It has also established the Croatian e-portfolio network and shares resources online. The University of Zagreb's e-learning strategy now includes e-portfolios. Its e-portfolio system, run through the E-learning Centre, has over 9,400 users generating over 22,700 pages.

1. Croatian e-portfolio chapter
Sandra Kučina Softić
Assistant Director for Education and User Support,
University Computing Centre SRCE
Europortfolio: the first Open Seminar,
April 30, 2014

2. E-portfolio Croatia
 established in September 2013
 launched within the E-learning Centre Week
 initiators and leaders:
 Igor Balaban, Ph.D, Faculty of Organization and Informatics,
University of Zagreb
 Sandra Kučina, Head of the E-learning Centre at the University
Computing Centre University of Zagreb
The aim of the Europortfolio Croatia is to synthesize e-portfolio
related work in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Macedonia and to create a virtual meeting
place for all e-portfolio practitioners , experts and all interested
parties from the region using Europortfolio web site

3. Our progress
 promotion of the e-portoflio and raising awareness of its
possibilities
 as a learning activity
 as a personal development plan
 as a career development plan
 as a showcase
 organisation of workshops on e-portfolio for students,
teachers, PhD students, faculty managements....
 organisation of lectures and presentations on e-portfolio,
Europortfolio and Croatian chapter to Croatian academic
community
 establishment of the Croatian e-porfolio community network

4. Our progress (2)
 sharing information and materials on the Europortfolio web
site
 e-portfolio is already defined in the University of zagreb E-
learning Strategy and now as well in the Working document of
University of Zagreb Strategy of Studying and Studies
 ecouragement of use of e-portofio as the learning activity
 ecouragement that teachers and students develop their own
e-portfolios
 presentation of the Europortfolio and Croatian chapter at the
international conferences and events (EDEN conference
2014...)

5. E-learning Centre at SRCE
 central point for support to institutions, teachers and students in
implementation of e-learning
 basic objectives
 support to teachers and students, teams and groups for e-learning
in higher education
 providing reliable and generally accessible e-learning platform
 to establish and support the university network of people
supporting, using or promoting e-learning
 to promote and foster implementation of e-learning at the
University of Zagreb

6. E-portfolio by
E-learning Centre
 The University of Zagreb e-portfolio system
 set up and administrated by the E-learning Centre
 based on the Mahara open source system
 translated into Croatian
 Connected to the University Learning Management System Merlin
 Organized support to users
 Manual for the use of e-portfolio system
 Animations demonstrating the use of e-portfolio system
 Manual "E-portfolio as a learning activity„ for teachers
 Workshops
 Helpdesk (e-mail, phone)
 Consultations
 The e-portfolio system has over 9400 individual users, over 140
groups and about 22700 pages

7. E-portfolio system homepage
• http://moodle.srce.hr/eportfolio/
• through Learning Management
System Merlin at http://merlin.srce.hr

8. E-learning Centre
University Computing Centre University of Zagreb
www.srce.unizg.hr/elc
sskucina@srce.hr