ePortfolios: Potentials from a European Perspective Angela Baker ePortfolio Manager European Institute for E-Learning ePortfolio & Talent Management Odense May 05

My presentation  Why ePortfolios  The ‘European’ ePortfolio vision  Overview of ePortfolio initiatives and projects in EU  The barriers to be overcome

Why ePortfolios?  Changing and dynamic society  Support lifelong learning  Streamline learning process  Tool to enable learning  Digital world

What problem are we trying to solve  How do we learn?  By following a course?  How do we identify learning and make its outcomes visible?  By testing and assessing  How do we get this learning and outcomes recognised?  By getting accreditation Process Product - outcomes Validation

ePortfolios supporting the learning flow  How do we identify that learning is taking place?  By supporting and recording the process: reflection, experimentation…  How do we make learning and its outcomes visible?  By providing evidence of skills and achievements video, audio…  How do we get this learning and outcomes recognised?  By getting 3rd Party validation Online journals, blogs… Capturing via video, audio… Feedback on outcomes, comments…

What is an ePortfolio used for  Learning or reflective portfolio Process  product  validation  Presentation portfolio Process  product  validation  Assessment portfolio Process  product  validation The EU ePortfolio

Specific EU portfolio requirements  Mobility  Multilinguality  Diversity  Cultural  Behavioural  Accessible  Life long learning

Features of an EU ePortfolio  Planning learning & development  Reflection  Community  Repository  Presentation  Assessment  Employment

Our vision of the ePortfolio is...  Is learner owned and driven  Supports reflective practice  Enables a learner to manage their learning and its outcomes  Enables a learner to demonstrate achievement  Enables portability and transparency of learning achievements  Is dynamic and not static

ePortfolios supporting European Initiatives  Common principles and criteria for the quality of education and vocational training  European Qualifications Framework  Common principles for the validation of informal and non-formal learning  Credit transfer for initial and vocational education  Europass:  Curriculum Vitæ  Mobility  Diploma supplement  Certificate Supplement  Language portfolio

The role ePortfolios can play in European strategy  Transparency of qualifications  Quality assurance in education  Accreditation of prior learning  Competency based approach  Lifelong and lifewide learning support  Educational reform

Coordinating ePortfolios in Europe: Europortfolio  A European consortium designed to  Achieve the goal ‘ePortfolio for all’  Promote innovative practice and technology  Contribute to the definition of technical standards and encourage interoperability  Provide support to, and co-ordinate, European initiatives  Coordinate the ePortfolio European Roadmap  Members:  Contributing Members  Members  Sign MoU on line at

EuroPortfolio Organisational Members – INDIRE (I) – CNDP (Fr) – Univ. Reading (UK) – Cass Business School (UK) – ALTE (UK) – NCSL (UK) – Scottish Enterprise (UK) – UCLES (UK) – Nuventive (US) – Uni Southern Denmark (D)

ePortfolio for ALL Roadmap  Four areas: Awareness; Policies; Technologies; Implementation  ePortfolio Awareness:  Indicators  ePortfolio as key theme in events and conferences  Context  International, European & National level  Current results  ePortfolio 2005, elearning Conf 05, Odense conference  Available at: Please contribute to the Roadmap & develop your own!

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ePortfolio Interoperability... EPICC:European eP Coordination Committee  Technology & Educationalists  EIfEL, IMS EU,Giunti Labs, CRA,EUN, UMaas, HUT  To Produce and demonstrate ePortfolio interoperability standards To achieve mobility, portability, our vision of 1 ePortfolio for life  How you can benefit:   eP Plugfest 26 th Oct.05  Demonstration platform  Collection of eP scenarios

ePortfolio for developing competences KEYPAL  Young Adults with no qualifications  Build an ePortfolio to gain and demonstrate key skills Outcomes:  ePortfolios for keyskills  key skills accreditation  standards of competence for ePortfolio users How you can benefit:  Attend workshop in Bremen (DRK) end June  Take part in the ePortfolio pilot for keyskills 

ePortfolio for supporting informal learning INFLOW  Employees in SMEs (Engineering & hospitality sectors)  ePortfolio to support, recognise and accredit informal learning  How you can benefit:  Take part in the pilot  Get accreditation for informal learning  Find out more:   Coordinated by MRS Consultancy UK

Where do we find ePortfolios? Implemented in all sectors of education  Teacher training  IUFM Caen  Apprenticeship training  ENFA France:  Higher Education  University of Maastricht:  Basic skills for adults  EUCEBS:  Community activities  Career Wales online:

Wales a learning country  ePortfolio for 3 million citizens  Supported by Careers Wales  49,000 users 6 months after launch  The e-portfolio will grow with the individual, allowing them to develop a habit of recording and understanding their learning achievements and progress which will be stored in a central digital location.

ePortfolio 2005: October Cambridge UK  Embedding ePortfolio Practice  Call for contributions open until 15th June 2005  research  work in progress  user testimonies  ePortfolio exhibition  ePortfolio plugfest on 26th  Registration now open

Potential is there but...  Multi tools and systems  Interoperability standards  Accessibility  Multi-lingual interfaces  Lifelong learning  Supporting Informal/ non-formal learning  Take up  Recognition of ePortfolios

For more information: Contact me Join Europortfolio Come to our International Conference ePortfolio October in Cambridge UK

Thank- you