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Welcome to eportfolio.eu

Welcome to eportfolio.eu, the reference website on ePortfolio practice, initiatives, ePortfolio and tools. This site has been designed in order to cover the different dimensions of the ePortfolio: individual ePortfolio, community ePortfolio, organisational ePortfolio, territorial ePortfolio and sectoral ePortfolio. The vision carried by this portal is the ePortfolio as the link between individual, community, organisational and territorial learning. Digital Identity and interoperability are also covered as they are essential elements to the success of ePortfolio developments.
ePortfolio for all

This site status is work in progress, and should be fully operational by the end of november 2007. If you have comments and suggestions, please send them to serge.ravet@eportfolio.eu.

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  1. ePortfolio conferences
  2. ePortfolio conference proceedings
  3. Europortfolio and Europass
  4. ePortfolio solutions
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EIfEL Member private space

A space dedicated to EIfEL members.

ePortfolio study workgroup

A European and international study on the readiness of policies, people, organisations and technology for the implementation of ePortfolio and Europass.

Interoperability workgroups description

Workgroups on interoperability, conformance testing and digital identity management. Specifications studied here (W3C, OASIS, Liberty Alliance, OpenID, HR-XML, IMS, ADL/Scorm, IEEE LTSC, AICC, Dublin Core) for interoperability of Social Networks/eLearning/KM/eHR systems with a focus on Digital Identity, Europass and Life Long Learning.

CV Interoperability WG description

CV interoperability working group, work in close relation with HR-XML, Cedefop/Europass, micro-format communities and HR professional associations.

ePortfolio Interoperability WG description

This working group is studing ePortfolio interoperability (Europass, HR-XML, Semantic Web, IMS ePortfolio, MicroFormat, social networks, FOAF...)

EIfEL staff is Member of IEEE LTSC WG20 (Reusable Competency Definition)

Marc Van Coillie from EIfEL staff is now a member of IEEE LTSC to work on the Reusable Competency Definition Standard

ePortfolio
What is a Portfolio? - Long before the ePortfolio was the portfolio, a document used by artists to present their best work, compiled by learners to demonstrate their achievements as well as professionals to gain recognition of their experience. Today, in the UK alone, almost 500,000 people get a qualification by creating a portfolio compiling evidence of their professional experience. To understand the power of ePortfolios it is important to understand what could be done with paper-based or mix-media portfolios as well as the unique value of the digital portfolio, beyond the transformation of paper-based into paper-less portfolios.
Portfolio Types - For a long time one made the difference between developmental, assessment and showcase ePortfolios. Although there is still some valididy in these categories, the frontiers have now blurred and expanded with the lifelong and lifewide ePortfolio as well as the concept of personal and organisaltional learning environments (POLE).
What is an ePortfolio? - In its short and dynamic history, the ePortfolio has rapidly moved from the status of simple paperless portfolio to sophisticated ePortfolio Management Systems and now social software. Today, the explosion of new social practices emerging from the use of new media, such as social networks and what is commonly referred as Web 2.0, tends to blur the frontiers of ePortfolios.
What are its components? - an ePortfolio is more than a mere "paperless portfolio." It is a bout an information system architecture where the "paperless portfolio" is being produced and consumed by different information systems. Ultimately it is about the manifestion of a new dimension of one's identity: the digital identity.
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Organisational ePortfolios

I received an email from my colleague Eva Heinrich, from Massey University that EIfEL had the chance to welcome during a sabbatical year in France. Her email was about a research student who is looking for "requirements, proposal of new features of eP tools to support organisational learning."EIfEL has invited contributions on organisational ePortfolios for some time now. In the 2004 ePortfolio

The ePortfolio is dead? Long life to Digital Identity! (2)

In a previous post (The ePortfolio is dead? Long life to Digital Identity! (1)) I expressed the idea that a fully developed ePortfolio is in fact a digital identity and that most of the so called ePortfolios are little more than paperless portfolios. What I would like to do in this post is reflect on (some of) the consequences in terms of technologies and solutions and respond the the questions:

About ePortfolio standards (2) - Reflexion

I indicated in a previous post that although a number of actors are involved in the design of open standards, the mere implementation of open standards is not enough to ensure interoperability. Two systems can be based on the same 'base specification', yet be unable to exchange information. In order to solve the issue of information portability across systems using different specifications we

About ePortfolio standards (1) - a rapid state of art

I would like to take the opportunity of a colleague's request about ePortfolio standards and interoperability, to present EIfEL views on this issue.Today, even if few ePortfolio suppliers are engaged in the implementation of existing specifications, those doing it generally do so within the context of a specific community, using what is called application profiles, i.e. an adaptation of a base

The ePortfolio is dead? Long life to Digital Identity! (1)

It is now nearly 5 years since EIfEL, at the time of the first International ePortfolio Conference, launched the idea that “In 2010, every citizen will have an ePortfolio.” The intuition we had at the time was that the ePortfolio was much more than a mere paperless portfolio, and that its digital dimension was going to create a special object which would travel with us throughout our life, our

Posts related to ePortfolio & digital identity RSS Feed
ePortfolios: Concept, Process, and Product

This aggregation of my online presence is how I construct my digital identity, using tools across the Internet, where I store videos in YouTube or blip.tv, images in Picasa or Flickr, presentations in slideshare.net, documents in ...

{Eportfolio_conversations} EpCoP: are you sitting comfortably; let ...

contained in my blog pages, and my Mahara Eportfolio Views. Each one > > has a specific purpose and each one can be shared, at my discretion, > > with whom I choose. Each are branded with my digital identity - coach > > carole. ...

AAEEBL 2010 Conference « Musings web 2.0 and collaboration

It has been about a month since I returned from the ePortfolio, AAEEBL conference in July 2010. I learned quite a bit and met some great people. I came back to Broome Community College with various implementation plans. ...

EIfEL hosts ePortfolio 2010 in London, UK

... eg on digital identity? To find the answers to these questions and more, join us at Learning Forum London, 5-7 July 2010, at the Savoy Place. The event will feature ePortfolio 2010, the 8th international ePortfolio conference, ...

Learning Futures: The ePortfolio is dead? Long life to Digital ...

The search for a unifying concept brings me to digital identity. And I believe now that it was the kind of thing we had in mind in 2003 when we launched the “ePortfolio for all” idea: to help every citizen to develop and exploit their ...

London Learning Forum July 5-7

Next 5-7 July 2010, Learning Forum London will welcome over 300 professionals coming from 30 different countries to discuss state of the art in the field of learning technologies, ePortfolios and digital identity. ...

ePortfolios: Big picture questions... | eLearning Infusion

Concepts of digital identity, digital citizenship, digital footprint, online safety, online security, moderation… need to be clarified along with all long term implications. Eportfolio Discussion Question 6. Will your eportfolios play a ...

ZEN Portfolios - Making e-portfolios fun, functional and free

so your e-portfolio can become an anchor for your online digital identity and use of other social media tools; Direct integration with other useful ZEN Portfolio tools like ZEN Project Sites, ZEN Start Ups, Fit Folios and more… ...

The ePortfolio is dead? Long life to Digital Identity! (2)

In a previous post (The ePortfolio is dead? Long life to Digital Identity! (1)) I expressed the idea that a fully developed ePortfolio is in fact a digital identity and that most of the so called ePortfolios are little more than ...

The Innovative Educator's Building Learning Communities ( BLC10 ...

Who Would You Rather Control Your Digital Identity? with Dean Shareski; Composing to Create a Digital Identity with Dr. Sara Kajder. My thoughts. Teach Kids how to manage their Digital Footprint; Ideas for parents interested in helping ...