Comments on: e-Portfolio thoughts http://www.stephenp.net/2005/07/01/e-portfolio-thoughts/ A specialist in inquiry-based, work-focussed, online supported learning Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:24:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephen Powell http://www.stephenp.net/2005/07/01/e-portfolio-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Stephen Powell Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:10:17 +0000 http://69.89.27.211/~stephep6/blog/2005/07/01/e-portfolio-thoughts/#comment-427 Hi Scott, I agree with your point about the stakeholder groupings. E-portfolio are fashionable (as were online communities a few years ago) and as such government departments and institutions are looking at them to solve all of their problems with little or no understanding of what they are dealing with. Hi Scott, I agree with your point about the stakeholder groupings. E-portfolio are fashionable (as were online communities a few years ago) and as such government departments and institutions are looking at them to solve all of their problems with little or no understanding of what they are dealing with.

]]> By: Scott Wilson http://www.stephenp.net/2005/07/01/e-portfolio-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Scott Wilson Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:00:29 +0000 http://69.89.27.211/~stephep6/blog/2005/07/01/e-portfolio-thoughts/#comment-426 I can concur with those conclusions overall, although I think the requirements for "hard data" are more difficult to pin down than might be obvious - do we mean vCard-type data, or HR-XML Resume-type data, or FOAF-type data? I think it depends on who you're thinking of as the consumer, which may point us towards multiple interoperability scenarios. One issue I keep coming up against is that what look (to me, at least) like good solutions for e-portfolios can be looked at as bad solutions for institutional record management or as bad solutions for goverment statistics and planning. The stakeholder perspectives are hard to disentangle, as ePortfolio has become a sort of generic hook to hang all kinds of education strategies from. I can concur with those conclusions overall, although I think the requirements for “hard data” are more difficult to pin down than might be obvious – do we mean vCard-type data, or HR-XML Resume-type data, or FOAF-type data? I think it depends on who you’re thinking of as the consumer, which may point us towards multiple interoperability scenarios.

One issue I keep coming up against is that what look (to me, at least) like good solutions for e-portfolios can be looked at as bad solutions for institutional record management or as bad solutions for goverment statistics and planning. The stakeholder perspectives are hard to disentangle, as ePortfolio has become a sort of generic hook to hang all kinds of education strategies from.

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