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Open source options (UK)

  • ePET JISC funded project, Newcastle Uni
  • Petal JISC funded, Oxford Brookes
  • OSP open source portfolio initiative (park of Sakai)

Summary report A report to the JISC, encompassing a review of existing e-portfolio software applications in
use in the UK, and a synthesis of literature reviews on e-portfolio systems (March 2005)
Includes literature review and useful reference list (though may be dated)
12 systems reviewed, mostly dead only three years on....

  1. my progress file
  2. careers wales online
  3. fdlearning - seems to be defunct? now tribal technologies (ex-LE?)
  4. portfolio maker (no live link)
  5. Folio (no live link)
  6. learndirect
  7. Loughborough college (private)
  8. Newcastle University (eportfolios as listed under open source)
  9. Rapid (Loughborough University - private)
  10. LUSID (Liverpool University - private)
  11. Eletronic portfolio system (University Southampton)
  12. Petal (Oxford Brookes, as listed under open source)

HEA Physical Sciences e-Portfolio project:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/home/projects/jisc_del/eportfolio
We need to acknowledge this project, and it might be helpful in the development of exemplars. Example:
http://www.hull.ac.uk/chemistry/pdp.php


EU project MOSEP (more self-esteem with my e-portfolio)

The original Higher Education Academy guidance note on PDP (HEA 2005) states that the characteristics of effective PDP practice in universities would include:

1. Linking PDP to confidence building for students
2. Introducing students to PDP at an early stage in their course
3. Ensuring that the process is developmental and progressive throughout the degree
4. Embedding PDP within the curriculum
5. Aligning it to what best motivates individual students
6. Customising it to the needs of the institution and link to external levers
7. Ensuring the approach to PDP is understood by and is relevant to students
8. Clarifying what PDP is both to staff and students
9. Making sure of management commitment
10. Taking a holistic approach

Strivens, J. 2007 (A survey of e-pdp and e-portfolio practice in UK Higher Education Centre for Recording Achievement, Higher Education Academy, London) describes the previous work which has been done in this field.
A more recent paper (PDP implementation at English universities: what are the issues? J. Further & Higher Education 2008 32(2) 99-109) discusses the process of implementation versus the more complex conceptual elements of PDP implementation (promoting a reflective approach). Most practitioners in this area now agree that it is essential to go beyond the original Dearing Report concept of a mere "progress file" which does not encompass the more valuable reflective element of PDP. This is the attribute we are attempting to engender in our students and this project seeks to explore practical ways in which this can be achieved. Good practice will involve promotion of a culture which engages both students and academic staff, but it remains true that in UK HE institutions, implementing personal development planning is piecemeal and is a continuing learning process.

Australian National Symposium on e-portfolios, June 2008.

The background report covers:
  • Building an e-portfolio
  • Users of e-portfolios
  • Benefits of e-portfolios
  • Types of e-portfolio
  • Issues arising




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