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Call for papers and reviewers! The University of Teacher Education Vienna is looking for contributions and reviewers for the “Reflecting Education Journal” special Issue: Digital innovations in Teacher Education”. Electronic portfolio is one of the topics!

EUfolio. EU classroom ePortfolios is a project devoted to pilot teaching with both Mahara and O365 as platforms for ePortfolios in lower secondary classrooms in Cyprus, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia and Spain.

At the project's partner meeting in Cyprus on 25 and 26 September, the piloting partners presented some of the results of their (still ongoing) pilots. The meeting was preceded by a workshop for using MS Office 365 as an ePortfolio platform.

Your opportunity to get up-to-date with the work of Europortfolio at Online Educa Berlin!

Members of the Europortfolio network will be leading a pre-conference event ‘Eportfolios and Open Badges: Support for Educational Change’ in Berlin on 3^rd December.  This will offer participants the opportunity to learn more about new products being developed for the community, including:

 Am 17.9.2014 ist es endlich soweit, die Österreichsektion der Europortfolio Community of Practice wird eröffnet. Mit dem Footprint-Workshop E-Portfolios und Open Badges (Europortfolio-Netzwerk am 13. E-Learning Tag der FH JOANNEUM unter dem Motto „Evaluierung offener Lernszenarien“  (Himpsl-Gutermann, Ghoneim, Wolf) erfolgt der offizielle Kick-off  für das Austrian Chapter.

The Europortfolio team presented on July 2 2014 the "ePortfolios and Open Badges Maturity Matrix". The objective was to collect feedback from practitioners and experts on a document that is aimed at helping organisations to plan and reflect on current developments and lay the foundations for the development of a review tool (self-assessment) that will be used to plan, monitor and review ePortfolios and Open Badges policies, technologies and practices.

What was presented is an alpha version (draft) of the Matrix and we are looking forward to the feedback of the community to produce a beta version that will be used to build the self-assessment tool. Based on the outcomes of the self-assessment tool's exploitation, a final version of the Matrix will be produced.

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. 

This webinar was hosted by Serge Ravet, ADPIOS on the topic of 'How could Open Badges transform ePortfolio practice and technologies?'

This webinar took place on Tuesday 27th May 2014 at 11 am UK TIME 

Access the slides from this presentation here

Access the recording at https://connect.liv.ac.uk/p786iz5rnoh/

Webinar Recording -Europortfolio - Strategies for implementing ePortfolios in Higher Education is now available via our Youtube channel 

To view the video click here 

To view the slide show click here 

“The objective of the portfolio is to enhance the student's self-assessment of his work in relation to the stated objectives. The tool focuses on processes and products over a given period and cover the evaluation and assessment in relation to stated objectives.”

This is how the Ministry of Education starts their recommendation of the use of portfolio as a tool in the Danish primary schools on their website (Link) .