This document discusses different types of portfolios and proposes embedding task portfolios into curriculum. It distinguishes between me-portfolios, which focus on the author, and task portfolios, which focus on activities. Task portfolios can benefit me-portfolios by providing context and opportunities for students to demonstrate learning through incremental tasks with feedback. The document advocates for portfolios that are personally customizable, task-based, and developed over time through evidence, reflections, and contributions from others in order to provide the richest evidence for me-portfolios.

1. Thinking beyond Me-
portfolios!
Embedding task portfolios in the
curriculum
Shane Sutherland
Designer and CEO, PebblePad
with
David Eddy
Radiotherapy, Oncology & Supportive Care Teaching Fellow (DL) AHP ODL

2. What do all these portfolios have
in common?

7. Shane Sutherland’s Professional Portfolio

10. They’re all about me!
…because (amongst other reasons) the
technology used to create portfolio
presentations is too powerful and useful
to be constrained by a single use
…and that’s a problem

11. (Presentational) Portfolios fall into two main categories
and (at least) eight sub-categories:
Me-Portfolios
 Personal
 Professional
 Promotional
T-Portfolios (task portfolios)
 Process
 Project
 Placement
 Production
 Pedagogical.
Tend… to focus on the author
Tend… to focus on an activity

12. How do task-portfolios benefit
me-portfolios?

16. Some example task-portfolios…

20. there is a limitation with an
approach like this…

21. What you need is a new kind of portfolio
framework…
• Where the structure is enabling, not constraining…
• Where users receive support on how to complete the
tasks…
• Where context frames content and users demonstrate their
learning guided by this…
• Where tasks can be incremental and timely (and mistakes
are rectifiable)

22. ‘owned’ by the designer
‘owned’ by the
designer
‘owned’ by the
student

23. Add new pages
over time
Add new content
over time

34. So, what are we actually talking about?
• ePortfolios as infinitely personalisable, task-based,
micro learning packages…
• * Developed over time
• Enhanced by evidence, thoughts, ideas, responses
and reflections from the user…
• * Enhanced over time
• Enriched by comments, feedback, contributions
and ideas from others…
• * Enriched over time
• Takeaway-able, re-useable, and the richest possible
evidence for my me-portfolio(s)

35. Me-portfolios Task-portfoliosv
Extra curricular Core curriculumv
Product focused Concerned with Product & Processv
Summatively assessed Formatively and
summatively assessed
v
Individual assessor Multiple assessment agentsv
Stand alone Developmental, linkedv
A possible, maybe, kind of, tentative dichotomy…

36. This part if the talk is given
by David Eddy of SHU

37. Time for questions…
Shane Sutherland
shane@pebblepad.com
David Eddy
d.eddy@shu.ac.uk