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The UK Minister for Skills recently commissioned the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG)  to make recommendations regarding the use of technology in Further Education - and in particular the barriers placed in the way by Regulatory Bodies, Funding Bodies and Awarding Organisations. The full report - and Government response - is available here .

With almost 40 colleagues participating face-to-face, and a further 50 colleagues joining remotely, including from the US and Australia, the first Open Seminar of the Europortfolio network held in Barcelona on 30th April demonstrated a strong level of interest from near and far.  In addition to introducing the work of the Consortium to colleagues, including a shared statement of aims agreed by participants the previous day and an insight into the five local Chapters already established, the event featured three presentations offering perspectives on e-portfolio practice. 

First ePortfolio classroom usage examples were presented at the 3rd EUfolio partner meeting in Ljubljana (15-16 April 2014).

Teachers and a principal from Ljubljana/Polje held presentations entitled "How to encourage critical thinking with the help of Mahara". They showed usage examples of ePortfolios in lower secondary school in Slovenia. In the framework of the EU funded project EUfolio, ePortfolio based teaching is piloted in lower secondary teaching in a range of member states. EUfolio partners from Cyprus were also able to show the first Mahara ePortfolio examples from their piloting schools. Besides supporting their piloting schools, the Cypriot experts are responsible for important project tasks in teacher CPD, support of teachers and evaluation of the pilot.