Well – it isn’t completely settled yet, but during an online workshop on e-portfolios arranged by the TLT group, Darren Cambridge and the participants jointly defined it like this (copied from the chat):
- Genre of representation around which there are a set of practices supported by a range of technological tools.
- Self representation that includes information about the author’s learning.
- Collection of diverse evidence created in authentic activity that is brought together and recontextualized to say something about what I know and can do (how I have grown or changed) … and with an added interpretation intended for one or more specific audiences
- Collecting and Making sense of the collection og evidence
- Making judgments about what is contained in this collection
- Some portfolios are used by educators to help the authors (learners who have created the ePortfolios).
This definition is touching upon many of the issues in relation to e-portfolios. I also like to think of it as a testimony that helps learners know about their own learning especially as a process. The e-portfolio enables the learner to understand and accept his or her own learning methods and strategies.
