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.
How are blogfolios different from e-Portfolios? They aren't exactly, they're more of a subset of e-Portfolios, or another way of looking at the traditional e-Portfolio.
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 grant made to Indiana University to support the development of a suite of open source, feature-rich electronic portfolio tools that serve institutions of higher education.
JISC infoKit with accompanying case studies will cover the main drivers, purposes, processes, perspectives and issues around e-Portfolios, as well as showcasing the wide range of activity undertaken over the last few years.