EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Quarterly Articles and e-portfolios

E-Portfolios as a Hiring Tool: Do Employers Really Care?

ckeller — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:49:04 -0600

E-portfolios demonstrate students’ learning and competency, yet higher education has not persuaded employers to use them in recruiting and selecting employees.

Implementing Electronic Portfolios: Benefits, Challenges, and Suggestions

ckeller — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:37:55 -0600

This research describes the lessons learned during the initial electronic portfolio implementation process at four teacher education institutions. These four universities were chosen because they hold the largest number of individual accounts of this particular commercial e-folio system. The e-folio coordinators at these four institutions shared challenges and opportunities related to implementation, faculty training, and faculty buy-in as their programs evolved in regard to e-folio usage. Coordinators from each university were emailed seven open-ended questions and the coordinators then replied via email. This study found that most challenges and benefits to e-folio use were programmatic/ administrative in nature. Suggestions for e-folio implementation were also provided by participants. University faculty and administrators who have implemented e-folios and those who are planning on implementing e-folios may find information in this manuscript to be useful in structuring e-folio implementation plans and/or moving e-folio usage to the next level.

Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning; Web Teaching Guide: A Practical Approach to Creating Course Web Sites; Roundtable on Project Management: A SHAPE Forum Dialogue - Book Reviews

drupal — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:14:53 -0500

The first review, on Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning, discusses the strength of this book in offering both potential practices with e-portfolios as well as critical views of the learning tool. The second review, on Web Teaching Guide: A Practical Approach to Creating Course Web Sites, provides an overview of this book's detailed development process for creating a course Web site. The third review, on Roundtable on Project Management: A SHAPE Forum Dialogue, points out the unique discussion style of this book and the wealth of information on project management and systems thinking that the dialogue offers.

Electronic Portfolios for Whom?

drupal — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:23:21 -0600

The literature doesn't discuss e-portfolio use to meet student needs and concerns but to support administrative efforts to solve long-term curricular issues

Video as Process and Product

drupal — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:56:19 -0600

Video self-modeling—part of the Russ Berrie Sales Institute curriculum—is captured, edited, and reused in student e-portfolios demonstrating their sales skills.

Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space

drupal — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:03:39 -0500

Rather than limit people to the e-portfolio model, why not develop a model providing a personal Web space for everyone, for their lifetimes and beyond?

Keeping the Horse Before the Cart: Penn State’s E-Portfolio Initiative

drupal — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:40 -0500

Penn State's promotion of e-portfolios to undergraduates and faculty has generated positive attitudes and increased use.

Portfolios to Webfolios and Beyond: Levels of Maturation

drupal — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:52:12 -0500

Descriptions of developmental stages offer institutions guidance about their place in the process and how to move to the next level.

Electronic Portfolios Need Standards to Thrive

drupal — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:08:50 -0500

The proliferation of e-portfolio applications requires compatible software and design standards to support lifelong learning.

On Implementing Web-Based Electronic Portfolios

drupal — Mon, 06 May 2002 16:38:10 -0500

A webfolio program lets instructors and students use the Web to improve teaching and learning.