The TLT Group is a not-for-profit that helps college and university educators take advantage of changing technology so they can improve teaching and learning. The TLT Group believes in approaching technology "people first." With over ten years of experience, we’ve helped hundreds of colleges and universities use and adapt to technology in ways that support teaching and learning, value the time and experience of staff and faculty and make the most of tight budgets and resources.
The TLT Group knows the challenges colleges and universities face and knows how to help them make choices that support teaching and learning, values staff and faculty time, and makes the most out of tight budgets and limited resources. As a non-profit, the TLT Group looks to enable collaboration, support, mutual understanding and communication among key stakeholders in an institution, and use evidence to make better decisions. It supports, and is supported by, over 110 institutions and agencies, plus over 100 individual members, around the world. It provides a variety of services and materials, many of them free.
EPortfolio related work:
The TLT group has supported these institutions use of eportfolios through in-depth consultations with dozens of groups, the development of planning and evaluation tools, and the delivery of online professional development courses. Most directly relevant to Europortfolio, it serves as the fiscal agent for the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research.
The Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research engages teams from higher education institutions in conducting three-year research projects on the use of ePortfolios for learning and assessment. 60 institutions from the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia have conducting or are conducting projects through six cohorts, one of which is currently active and five of which are complete. I/NCEPR has held over 30 face-to-face meetings. Results have been disseminated through numerous publications, including Electronic Portfolios 2.0 (Stylus, 2009). The fourth cohort (2006-2009) was composed of European universities and focused on the challenges of eportfolio learning and assessment in a European context, yielding, for example, insights about the roles of feedback and coaching in developing skills and dispositions needed for lifelong learning, such as the habit of engaging in critical reflective practice and the development of self-efficacy.
Europortfolio will allow for the I/NCEPR’s experience conducting practice-oriented research and the results of the past cohorts to be applied in a broader and more sustained European context.
