Planning for electronic portfolios - practical implications
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Author(s): Helen Barrett Trent Batson Tom Lewis
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Presentation(s): ELI Meetings
Abstract
What will the impact of implementing electronic portfolios be on the infrastructure (network, hardware, software, administrative systems), how courses are managed, how schools track student progress, teacher-student interactions, and so on? The questions that will be tackled during this session are:
1. What are the higher education system issues associated with e-portfolios?
What are the key challenges faced by higher education in moving from the paper transcripts to those that include e-portfolios? What are the short and long-term policy implications of e-portfolios (security, privacy and access, long-term legal implications, definition of official record, need for institutional gatekeepers, FERPA) What are the implications of a potential shift from institutionally-based to lifelong learner-based records?
2. What are the institutional planning, implementation and programmatic issues associated with e-portfolios?
What are the support and long-term maintenance implications (financial models, storage and archiving, lifelong portfolios)? How can we use our understanding of prior efforts to avoid some of the pitfalls in e-portfolio development?
3. What are the technical issues associated with e-portfolios? How can existing technologies be used to design effective e-portfolios?
How can e-portfolios be integrated into existing enterprise systems (student information systems)?