What are the Benefits of ePortfolios?
ePortfolios are used in a variety of contexts, from initial education to support learning processes and assessment, to lifelong learning and employment, managing one's career as employee, freelance worker or entrepreneur.
Building an ePortfolio should help you to:
- Plan learning and development - reflect on your current position and plan further learning through paid and voluntary work, life experiences, leisure activities and courses.
- Document Learning - make visible the learning achieved by collecting evidence of your own work, feedback from peers, mentors, teachers, clients, etc.
- Articulate learning - organise the evidence collected in a narrative to connect them competency standards against which you make a claim.
- Review and assess learning - the reflective observation of your learning to identify what you have learnt, what to do to improve it and the means for achieving it.
- Recognise learning - making your learning visible to others will help you to have your skills, abilities, competencies and talent to be recognised by your colleagues, peers, current or future employer.
- Accredit Learning - to obtain a certificate, a diploma or a statement of achievement, you might be required to submit an ePortfolio to an awarding body, a professional body or a training organisation (e.g. Accreditation of Prior Learning).
