Overview
ePortfolios allow students to reflect on their international experiences and courses while creating a digital archive of acquired skills and accomplishments. Student ePortfolios can be used to foster global learning, connections among experiences, and career development.
Strategies
Reflect
ePortfolios encourage students to develop an awareness of their own growth.
Showcase
The expanding use of ePortfolios at institutions around the country provides students with the opportunity to showcase their knowledge and grasp of a particular subject area in a meaningful way.
Peer Review
E-portfolios can be reviewed by student peers, faculty, and working professionals in the field to provide multiple layers of feedback and diverse perspectives. ePortfolios promote integrative learning by having students collect, select, reflect and connect new experiences and understandings to the big picture they have come to know.
ePortfolios in Job Search Materials
Student ePortfolios can be a beneficial addition to job search materials. When designing a portfolio assignment, consider encouraging students to make the connections to their future careers explicit. For example, your students could include links on their resume that connect their experience and skills to items in their portfolio.
References
- Carl Straumsheim (Inside Higher ED): Promising Portfolios
- George Lorenzo and John Ittelson (Educause): An Overview of ePortfolios
- Overview of various ePortfolio Tools
- Randy Bass (Georgetown University): ePortfolio Pedagogy
- Sharon Bradley: ePortfolios (.pdf)
- Tracey Madden (Higher Education Academy): Supporting Student e-Portfolios
- Zeer, E. F. & Stepanova, L. N. (2018). Portfolio as an Instrumental Means Of Self-Evaluation of Educational and Professional Achievements of Students
- Miller, R. & Morgaine, W. (2009). The Benefits of ePortfolios for Students and Faculty in Their Own Words
- Jonan Donaldson (Educause): Digital Portfolios in the Age of the Read/Write Web