E-portfolios for Learner Pathways launches new website
As part of the National VET E-learning Strategy, the E-Portfolios for Learner Pathways business activity launched its new website on 6 June. With an emphasis on practical resources, the website is the primary dissemination channel for all project outputs, such as: Reports derived from targeted research to support the notion of lifelong learning within the [...]
New report refreshes picture of e-portfolio use in adult learning
The Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s (Framework) E-portfolios business activity has supported a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) study designed to provide a more complete picture of e-portfolio practice in adult learning. ePortfolio use by university students in Australia: Informing excellence in policy and practice (Supplementary Report) – is now available and provides a valuable comparison [...]
NEW! E-portfolios and privacy resources
E-portfolios are becoming increasingly popular in the vocational education and training (VET) sector as a tool for undertaking course work, collating and demonstrating evidence of skills and achievements, or for seeking employment. In this context, e-portfolios contain a significant amount of personal information about learners, some of which may be quite sensitive and, if not [...]
Storing learner content in e-portfolios: Have your say
As e-portfolios become increasingly popular in vocational education and training (VET), registered training organisations (RTOs) are starting to think about which type of e-portfolio system would suit their organisational and learners’ needs. Research has shown that learners are much more likely to use e-portfolios if they can access and use them independently of their [...]
Privacy guidelines developed for e-portfolios
Source: Licensing Line News The development of privacy guidelines has been a key outcome of recent research undertaken by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework into the use of e-portfolios in the vocational education and training sector…read more
VET E-portfolio privacy impact assessment research report
Education Services Australia – Sixty Seconds Newsletter 17/03/2010 E-portfolios are becoming increasingly popular in the vocational education and training (VET) sector as a tool to collate and demonstrate evidence of skills and achievements and assist in the RPL (recognition of prior learning) process. However, e-portfolios contain a significant amount of personal information about learners which [...]
VET E-Portfolio Showcase
The VET E-Portfolio Showcase will cover issues such as addressing the skill shortages; relationship with Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL); fast tracking apprenticeships and traineeships; work-based learning; learner mobility; lifelong learning; and be transmitted through communities of practice and sharing of local case studies at the national level. For more information click here
e-Portfolios beyond education and training
There is currently much research activity in the area of e-portfolios. This investigation is built on significant Australian work and takes a blue skies approach to developing a vision for e-Portfolio solutions that support lifelong learning. This investigation focuses on analysing web technologies that may form part of e-Portfolios in the future and how these [...]
New resources for embedding e-portfolios
Australian Flexible Learning Framework 13/8/09 E-portfolios are becoming popular around the world as a tool to enhance learning and assist with personal career development. As a learner-driven collection of digital objects demonstrating experiences, achievements and evidence of learning; the increased use of e-portfolios provides a host of benefits for learners, employers, teachers and trainers, CEOs [...]