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Electronic portfolios are not always easy to define
because they are more than just an organized collection of completed
work. Some common definitions below are designed to give you an overview.
The links above to the right provide you with more detailed information
on theory, practice and examples of portfolios.
- Portfolios can serve different purposes but are always a goal
driven, organized collection of items (artifacts) that demonstrate
a learner's expansion of knowledge and skills over time (Kilbane
& Milmann, 2003).
- An electronic portfolio is a purposeful collection of an individual's
work that demonstrates effort, progress, and achievements. The collection
is developed through various types of electronic media (audio, video,
documents) that support the demonstration of mastery.
- Electronic portfolios, or ePortfolios, provide a web/net based
format for organizing, displaying, and assessing course assignments
and projects. Like any act of composing, they are both process and
product.
- Electronic portfolios (1) show goals, intents, and plans; (2)
display work and examples of progress toward goals; (3) provide
evidence of accumulating feedback and subsequent reflection; (4)
reveal a trail of growth and improvement based on that reflection
in order to elevate goals, intents, and plans.
- A truly meaningful portfolio is as much a process as it is a
product.
- Portfolios rely on student participation in selection of portfolio
content, criteria for selection, criteria for judging merit, and
evidence of self-reflection.
- Purpose-driven portfolios are developed and built by an individual
with a particular goal in mind. Individually driven portfolios tend
to evolve throughout their construction as the individual's goals
and ideas change.
The portfolios required for the MDE capstone course
should evolve and their design and content periodically examined and
updated.
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