What is an ePortfolio?
An ePortfolio is an electronic portfolio that enables students to keep a purposeful collection of student work, demonstrations and artefacts that showcase their achievements, learning progression, evidence of work and overall development throughout a course, module or time at University. Typically, ePortfolios incluse text-based content, embedded multimedia (inc. recordings of demonstrations, presentations, interviews), graphics, blogs and any other body of student work that is relevant to the portfolio.
You may choose to view some portfolio examples from the PebblePad Community:
- Course-Based Portfolios Links to an external site.
- Learning Focused Portfolios Links to an external site.
- Creative Arts Therapies Links to an external site. by Fiona Gardner (Murdoch University, AU)
- Science Communication Links to an external site. by Arpa Modi (McMaster University, Canada)
ePortfolios as a Learning and Assessment Tool
Student Learning: E-portfolio has been used to facilitate, document, and archive student learning. It is a learning tool for students to clarify their educational goals, integrate and solidify learning through reflection, and showcase achivement to potential employers. By having students reflect on what they learned, how they learned it, and how much they learned, they start to take control of their own learning. As Paulson and Paulson (1991) said, “portfolio is a laboratory where students construct meaning from their accumulated experience” (p. 5). As students select their representative work and reflect on what they learned, they start to make sense of their educational experiences in various courses and derive new meaning out of the process (Banta, 2003).