Eportfolios allow people to manage the evidence of their formal and informal learning experiences by enabling them to gather and present their information in one place. Through a flexible, student-centred approach, teachers/trainers can regularly provide ongoing feedback and advice to their students through their eportfolio. As part of a structured and scaffolded program, students are empowered to showcase themselves in a variety of ways, utilising the mobile devices which they carry around with them, and as they collect their evidence anytime, anywhere. The skills students develop in creating their eportfolio are those necessary to effectively present and manage themselves online, a key skill for the 21st century. Students then have the opportunity to use their eportfolio to apply for a job, get a promotion or gain recognition of prior learning. This session will demonstrate how eportfolios are being used as flexible, online learning and assessment spaces, and how teachers/trainers can get started in implementing eportfolios with their students.

1. Eportfolios as flexible learning
spaces
Putting it Together
Allison Miller
29 March 2012
vanguardvisionsconsulting.com.au

2. What is an e-portfolio?
Why would you use one
for learning &
assessment?

3. flexiblelearning.net.au
Image by Sengchang– Singapore Changi Airport, Control Tower - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singapore_Changi_Airport,_Control_Tower_2,_Dec_05.JPG

4. bit.ly/vumieg

5. How can learners collect
evidence?

6. New ways of capturing and assessing learning
Digital stories Conversations
about me (Movie (mp3/smart
Maker / Photostory) pens)
Live evidence
(POV, video, Workshops Narrative /
photos) (digital Reflective
certificates) Journals
(blogs)
Digital Story Image by Benjamin Rabe: papercuts: 2-L8-4-BBQ?! - http://www.flickr.com/photos/26675085@N00/4110438350
MP3 Image by James F Clay: Edirol R-09HR - http://www.flickr.com/photos/7888746@N08/2872576116

7. Why is it important for
students to manage their
own information?

8. Approximately 70% of
learning occurs in the
workplace and in the
community as informal
learning
Center for Workforce Development. The Teaching Firm:
Where Productive Work and Learning Converge. Newton, MA, 1998.

10. We should be
preparing people
for a life of
learning
(both formal &
informal)

11. sites.google.com/site/coachcaroleeportfolio/

12. mahara.e-skills.com.au/view/view.php?t=Vgogyi0H3zxjixhT7z2Q

13. How can we support
lifelong learning?

15. Student centred-learning
based on the Assessment for Learning framework
Picture of Clarify and share learning intentions
Competence and criteria for success
Questioning Engineer effective discussion,
questions, and learning tasks
Feedback
Move learners forward with feedback
Self Assessment Activate learners as the owners of their
own learning
Peer Assessment Activate learners as instructional
resources for one another
Modified from: Rob Stowell, Learning Australia, Quality of Assessment Practices, 2010 DFEEST Quality Forum, SA – slide 14

16. Student centred-learning
based on the Assessment for Learning framework
Picture of How are you/can you sharing this picture of competence with your
Competence learners?
How are you engineering effective discussion, questioning, and
Questioning learning tasks for your learners?
Feedback How are you moving your learners forward with feedback?
Self Assessment How are you supporting your learners to be owners of their own
learning?
Peer Assessment How you are enabling your learners to be instructional resources for
one another?
Modified from: Rob Stowell, Learning Australia, Quality of Assessment Practices, 2010 DFEEST Quality Forum, SA – slide 14

17. Student centred-learning
based on the Assessment for Learning framework
Student Centred learning &
assessment strategies Incorporating eportfolios
• Sharing learning expectations through • Determine the purpose and audience
picture of competence eg examples, for the eportfolio
templates
• Help the students understand what • Collect student work first
evidence to collect through
questioning
• Provide feedback (and feed-forward) • Select key pieces as evidence and
on the selected evidence build the eportfolio
• Provide self-assessment opportunities • Reflect or ‘self assess’ the learning
process and selection of work
• Encourage mentor, expert and/or peer • Connect and share with others
assessment

18. What’s in it for me/them?

19. Reuse - Repurpose
Watch this video at: youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2_hYt2iyxeQ#!

20. How can ‘tags’ or ‘key
words’ help
reuse/repurpose and
showcase my evidence?

21. Holistic Assessment
Use unit codes to
aggregate resources per
unit of competency
Demonstrating my key
employability Skills
Highlighting my
strengths/interest areas

23. bit.ly/LaTrobeeporteg

24. bit.ly/UniSAeporteg

25. What skills & knowledge
do you develop when
creating an e-portfolio?

26. Managing your digital identity
Digital literacy
- uploading, file
compression, presenting
yourself
online, formatting, multime
dia ……
Digital privacy
- Appropriate
information, sharing
Digital protocols, privacy
ownerships setting, data mining ……
- copyright, intellectual
property, moral
rights, creative
commons……

27. Managing your digital identity
Digital literacy
- uploading, file
compression, presenting
yourself
online, formatting, multime
dia ……
Digital privacy
- Appropriate
information, sharing
Digital protocols, privacy
ownerships setting, data mining ……
- copyright, intellectual
property, moral
rights, creative
commons……

28. Where can you get
started with
e-portfolios and e-
assessment?

29. Career development, professional associations,
employees, employers
Available from: flexiblelearning.net.au/content/e-portfolios-resources

30. Vision:
• Provide assistance in embedding eportfolios
• Disseminate information about the process of building eportfolios
• Mentor new users in the use of eportfolios
EpCop Website - Information, resources and events:
epcop.net.au
Eportfolio Conversations - discussion forum
: conversations.epcop.net.au

31. EpCop MOOC resources about eportfolios to
create your own eportfolio and
EpCop MOOC is part of the VET E-portfolios Community of Practice (EpCop) and is funded by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework

32. Create your own eportfolio
at:
digitalcapability.com.au

33. Eportfolios Program
Start in SYDNEY - 30 & 31 August 2012
Workshop One: ePortfolios as personal online learning spaces
Workshop Two: ePortfolios for eAssessment
More information at:
bit.ly/ePFSyd2012

34. Meeting expectations – achieving goals
Australian Catholic University, Sydney
27-28 September 2012
follow ePortfolios Australia:
• Twitter: twitter.com/eportfoliosaust
• Facebook: facebook.com/eportfoliosaust
• Slideshare: slideshare.net/eportfoliosaustralia
eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference/conference-eac2012/

35. Meeting expectations – achieving goals
Australian Catholic University, Sydney
27-28 September 2012
following ePortfolios Australia:
• Twitter: twitter.com/eportfoliosaust
• Facebook: facebook.com/eportfoliosaust
• Slideshare: slideshare.net/eportfoliosaustralia
eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference/conference-eac2012/

36. Allison Miller
0400 732 270
allison@vanguardvisions.com.au
vanguardvisionsconsulting.com.au
vanguardvisionsconsulting.com.au