Learning Ecosystems

Using digital media for your e-Portfolio — from JISC

e-Portfolios are an important part of many learners’ academic life. This advice document introduces the concept of an e-Portfolio and explains how digital media can be used effectively.

Also see:

• The Student Portfolio is the New Book: New Practices, Profession, and Scholarship — from CampusTechnology.com by Trent Batson, C. Edward Watson

The master and apprentice, the teacher, the teacher as interpreter of the book, and the book itself has each served, during one epoch or another, as a prime organizing entity or model for our culturally-accepted theory about educating novices. Compared to today, knowledge changed slowly during this long period, and therefore these time-honored models for learning served us well. But a printed book is static, seemingly out of step in this dynamic digital age, and so can no longer serve successfully as the most important central organizing entity for learning today. The student electronic portfolio is superseding the book as the most useful organizing element: It is a dynamic organizing space in a dynamic knowledge process.