The authors are responding to what appears to be an irresistable trend in learning, the tendency to want to apply "standards, controls and criteria" to new learning technology and to fix it firmly to that bastion of traditional learning, the course. "The e-portfolio is used as a skills checklist. Once the course is over, discontinued use; what a waste." Exactly. Much of this draft covers ground familiar to OLDaily readers - blogs and blogging, FOAF and social networking. But the authors' proposal is visionary. "Creation of a learning landscape where learners engage in the whole process both academically and socially should increase the opportunity to build one's learning instead of just being the recipients of information." If your view of portfolios is just something akin to a content management system, don't bother. But if it's the student's personal and continuing presence in an online community of discourse, then you are on to something. Thanks, Jeremy, for the link.
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