The “thin portfolio” concept (borrowing from the prior “personal information aggregation and distribution service” concept) represents the idea that you don’t need that portfolio information in one server; but that it is very helpful to have one place where one can access all “your” information, and set permissions for others to view it. This concept is only beginning to be implemented.
A critical review of the use of the concept of reflection in Higher Education. David Andrew, Miriam Green, Gary Pheiffer, Debbie Holley. BEST conference, April 2002. Reflection as a concept should be abandoned in management educational practice because of: Lack of consistent definition Lack of operational value - we can't tell students how to do it Some minor, but potential dangers if we could tell students how to do it Lack of necessity - we do not see how such an ill-defined concept is necessary for helping students to learn.
This site aims to provide a community resource for those interested in ePortfolios and Personal Development Planning (PDP). This site was first set up to document an FDTL4 project in which we built a configurable ePortfolio.
Reflection is hard. Guidance is required in the design of reflective questions (by course teams), the writing of reflective accounts (by students) and the marking of assessments (by tutors). Reflective skills need to be built up gradually. It takes time to get used to the new ways of thinking required. It is necessary to situate reflection in the course and relate it to the students’ practice. Reasons for introducing reflection to students must be made clear up front.