The document provides recommendations for enhancing e-portfolio interoperability, emphasizing the need to detail application scenarios and information structures used in e-portfolio tools. It advocates for understanding various interoperability specifications and engaging with stakeholders to ensure effective information exchange. Key points include analyzing existing information structures and ensuring the chosen specifications align with partner systems for better portability and usability.

1. Recommendations for e-portfolio portability or interoperability Simon Grant JISC Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS) 2010-05-25

2. (These will be elaborated in this presentation) Detail your application scenarios and needs You need to know what the scope of your interoperability will be Deepen your understanding of information structure within the information that you are holding Choose an appropriate interoperability specification that works for the information you and others want Three major recommendations

3. 1. Detail your application scenarios and needs

4. Tools are only as useful as the human processes they support Interoperability serves e-portfolio tools in particular, serves passing information between them E-portfolio tools serve human processes and interoperable tools serve extended processes What processes do you need or want to support? perhaps thought of as “life-long” or “life-wide” learning

5. what information that supports these processes could be used by

6. and then moved between

7. supporting tools?

8. e.g. what could be moved for... Personal development planning including records of achievements Reflective logs

9. Results of self-awareness exercises

10. Assessment results: formative and summative

11. Self-presentation including linked online CVs

12. Professional development / certification / validation

13. Feedback, review, appraisal communications

14. … and anything from VLE / LMS / e-learning?

15. What do you need to consider? You need to think in some detail about your processes in in a lifelong life-wide perspective …

16. What information from other processes may be useful to your processes? e.g. what portfolio work in schools may be relevant to HE? What information might want to be passed on to others? e.g. what from HE may be useful to professional development? What information might be shared at the same time? e.g. what may be useful to share between e-portfolio tools or other development support or learning tools?

17. Who else has similar scenarios? What are their scenarios and processes? You may move some or all of your system information to or from (e.g. if you switch systems)

18. Can you pick up anything from what they do? The way these other systems store and use information is significant to you as it may constrain the extent of information portability or interoperability

19. 2. Deepen your understanding of the structure of the information you hold

20. Different views of information We see complex things in our own differing ways (if we're lucky, we see simple things in similar ways) The way you structure or represent your information could well be different from the way others do it

21. For mutual understanding you need to engage in close dialogue with others

22. Consensus may come through including extra things in the conceptual models of each party enough things to cover everyone's way of thinking