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09.12.2014
Europortfolio
Wednesday 3rd December provided the opportunity for Europortfolio members to share their emerging ideas - and deliverables - at a hugely popular pre-meeting workshop at Online Educa at the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin. The event, following a project meeting on the previous two days, provided the opportunity: To brief colleagues on the new Europortfolio portal, newly launched, with the enhanced potential to support active collaboration amongst practitioners across Europe. For the formal launch of the German Chapter of Europortfolio. For detailed discussion of four key and innovative Europortfolio deliverables: 1. The Maturity Matrix, as database for self-review instrument and plans to develop a self-assessment tool to ensure this will become a dynamic resource for appreciating – and improving – organisational practice. The Competency and Recognition Framework, and how e-portfolio tools and technologies can support the recognition of competency across the occupational spectrum – from bricklayer to brain surgeon and back again. The online resources to support staff development – explicitly...
02.12.2014
Research
Portfolio is used as a didactical means in all nursing schools in Denmark – particularly because the education as nurse has been offered as distance learning since 2001. It is only the theoretical part of the education, which is offered as distance learning. So the students still go into internships at hospitals for clinical training. In an article in the Danish Nurses Magazine nurse Trine Ungermann Fredskild presents her Ph.D. project from 2009, where she looked into learning processes; development of students' basic clinical nursing skills; the student's collaboration with patients, fellow students and teachers and development of the students' jargon. This has been done as a comparative study, where she has examined both at the classical education as a nurse and the one offered as distance learning. The particularly didactical challenges of distance learning in nurses training point to the use of portfolio. Trine Fredskild writes: “The project points here to the electronic portfolio. An electronic portfolio is a learning tool with reflection as the key. The portfolio requires the student's...
02.12.2014
Practice
ePortfolio Experience at Faculty of Education, Rovira i Virgili University: A case study 1. The problem Does eportfolio promote a deep learning approach and self-regulation of learning on pre-service teachers in Children Education? In order to find out this question a learning designed eportfolio strategy was used in order to cope with the demands of teachers training in the department of Pedagogy of Rovira i Virgili University. 2. The context The “Teaching and learning experimental sciences, social sciences and math” is a mandatory course within Children Education at the Faculty of Education, Rovira I Virgili University. It usually comprises large groups, in this case 142 students. The university already has developed a methodology to be used to showcase eportfolio within the faculties of Turism and Medicine during the practicum and as a pre-requisite for graduation. However, the Faculty of Education didn’t count with an eportfolio methodology. Then, an ePortfolio Learning Framework is proposed. 3. Teaching and learning activities The learning activities were focused on how to teach sciences by...
01.12.2014
Announcement
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 3rd December. This will offer participants the opportunity to learn more about new products being developed for the community, including: Maturity Matrix which will enable you to evaluate your progress with implementation, and provide ideas on what might need to happen next; Recognition and Competency Framework identifying how e-portfolio tools and technologies, together with Open Badges, can support the requirements of competency recognition; Guidelines for the implementation of eportfolios in organisations; New ePortfolio Introductory Course to support the implementation of eportfolios by practitioners. Open Badges, ePortfolios and personal learning environments are topics that are still being developed. In this event we will develop our ideas with you, and make sure the products we are developing in Europortfolio are usable by, and useful for practitioners....
28.11.2014
Announcement
We have great pleasure in welcoming you to the third revision of the Europortfolio Portal! The latest version of the portal reflects the gain in maturity of the Europortfolio initiative. So far the Portal has undergone 3 major revisions. During the first and second phase of the project we have invited the community to help us establishing the map of ePortfolio initiatives, projects, organisations, people, publications, etc. Despite the imperfections of earlier versions, the portal now provides access to nearly 500 entries, many interconnected, which is a good enough number to start exploring further how to make this information more accessible and useful. The new version makes it easier for the people registered on the Europortfolio portal to publish and find information as well as participating in discussions. Also, we added a variety of features based on your feedback so now you are able to start online cooperation in order to work with others, manage registrations for events and cooperations, add content using contextualized menus, access your dashboard, and much more. As we plan to continuously...
16.11.2014
Initiative
Grading Soft Skills (GRASS) is a 3-year research project financially supported by EU (project reference number: 543029-LLP-1-2013-1-RS-KA3-KA3MP), focusing on representing soft skills of learners of various ages and at different levels of education in a quantitative, measurable way, so that these skills can become the subject of formal validation and recognition. The project is being developed with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) of the EU, the flagship European funding programme in the field of education and training. The key objective of LLP is to enable individuals at all stages of their lives to pursue stimulating learning opportunities across Europe. The GRASS project is categorized as an LLP transversal programme key action 3 (KA3) project. KA3 projects are about the use of ICT tools to enhance learning environments and experiences. GRASS addresses KA3 priority 3.1.2, Innovative pedagogy and assessment methods for diverse learning pathways. See the project description page for details. The project has officially started on Jan 01, 2014.
