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ePortfolios: Hot Once Again
4/16/2008
ePortfolio thinking and theory is behind this vision. The Web is in this case "the field" and learning is then experiential and exploratory and authentic. This Web-based ePortfolio experience is integrative, collaborative, persistent over time, and owned by students. Yet, the campus still "owns" the ePortfolio portal and assessment database.
This ePortfolio concept will lead to a distributed ePortfolio that can easily evolve, quickly adapt, allow for individual learning design, yet still address the reporting needs that higher education institutions must meet for accreditation purposes.
We don't hear, at these ePortfolio conferences now, "what is it?" any longer, but "how can we do it?" And, in the long term, the Web is the way to do it.
Trent Batson, Ph.D. has served as an English professor, director of academic computing, and has been an IT leader since the mid-1980s. He is currently a Communication Strategist in the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at MIT. batsontr@mit.edu
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