e-Portfolio-based Learning: Elluminate session

Julie Hughes from Wolverhampton University will host a session on how the use of an e-portfolio system can support students to become critically engaged reflective learners. The session will draw upon 5 years experience in a School of Education with examples shared from Foundation Degree to Masters level.

When: 28th October 2009, 2-3pm
Where: Online via Elluminate

This session draws upon 5 years practice and research exploring how the use of an e-portfolio system might support and enhance student engagement and learning. Julie is particularly interested in: how technologies such as blogs might support the transitions into and out of the university, the development of collaborative learning cultures including assessment for learning strategies, the role of dialogue and talkback (Lillis 2001) in formative assessment (including ePDP) and feedback and the vital role of mentoring and capacity building in colleagues to ensure that the practices and pedagogies are supported and embedded beyond projects and pilots.

The session will draw upon student e-portfolio artefacts and narratives from Foundation Degree to Master’s level and will consider how the shift to e-portfolio-based learning requires attendant pedagogic shifts and curriculum redesign to fully exploit the iterative and recursive learning potential within the technology.

Please contact Lisa Gray for more info l.gray@jisc.ac.uk

How can e-Portfolios transform 21st century learning?

Date: November 3rd 2009
Time: 10:00 – 16:00
Venue: Euston House, London

e-Portfolios are not a new concept. In various guises, digital presentations of skills and competences, online records of achievement, and action plans with opportunities for reflection have been in use in education for nearly a decade. So what is new about e-portfolios?

This free-to-attend workshop will explore what we mean by e-portfolios and how e-portfolios can support 21st century learning. Drawing on the work of JISC-funded projects and other significant e-portfolio developments, it will provide a snapshot of learning enhanced by e-portfolios in higher, further and continuing education.

Topics will cover:
- Introducing, understanding and investigating e-portfolios
- Putting e-Portfolios in context
- How e-portfolios work – developing a model
- The next steps in developing and embedding e-portfolios
- e-Portfolio processes including collaboration, reflection and responding to feedback
- Introduction to – Effective Practice with e-Portfolios- and e-Portfolios infoKit
- Examples of current systems and completed projects

This workshop is for those who use, or support others use of, e-portfolios: practitioners and managers in higher and further education; staff developers; those involved in initial teacher training; and in the management and implementation of PDP, CPD and lifelong learning.

Please contact Lisa Gray for more info l.gray@jisc.ac.uk

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