MERLOT ePortfolio Portal

Welcome to the MERLOT ePortfolio Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning. You are invited to join MERLOT - it's free - and contribute to this growing ePortfolio community of instructors. As a MERLOT member, you can contribute learning materials and assingments, submit your own learning materials for evaluation, and get access to great ideas to help you teach online and in the classroom.
A simple and clear definition of electronic portfolios (usually called ePortfolios and sometimes referred to as webfolios or digital portfolios) is impossible because electronic portfolios be utilized in multiple ways and for varied reasons by students, faculty, staff and administrators. Educators readily proclaim the potential of ePortfolios to enhance teaching and learning; assessment practices; institutional and program accreditation processes; faculty tenure and promotion decisions; administrative procedures and strategies; student, faculty, and alumni career-advancement; and more.
This section of the Merlot website sets out to provide as much clear information as possible about ePortfolios. It is divided into the sections listed below. Each section has sub-sections that, combined, further delineate the who, what, where and why of ePortfolios. There are many links provided here to ePortfolio resources from around the world.
ABOUT EPAC...Previously sponsored by the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative/Educause Learning Initiative and the American Association for Higher Education, the EPAC Community of Practice has been a leading resource on electronic portfolios since October 2002. Please visit our community wiki at http://epac.pbwiki.com.
If you have any questions, contact the Editor of the ePortfolio Editorial Board.

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Teaching

The most prominent use of ePortfolios can be found in colleges of education. However, faculty from a variety of disciplines have discovered ePortfolios for effective teaching and learning. ePortfolios are also increasingly being utilized in general education required courses. more

MERLOT ePortfolio community is an interactive group of educators. Many community members make their professional information available in MERLOT's member directory.

This section links to the people actively engaged in ePortfolio research and development along with the vendors and tools that are driving ePortfolios into the future. more

In the press:

Check out Helen Barrett's blog E-Portfolios for Learning, She has created this blog to discuss her ideas on electronic portfolios to support lifelong learning. I hope to share some of my concerns about the current direction of electronic portfolios in High Education and K-12 schools. more

LaGuardia Community College is seeking proposals for "Making Connections: An ePortfolio Mini-Grant and Seminar Program" - Due November 20, 2008

Save the date! ePortfolio West Coast Summit February 24-25, 2009, San Francisco CA

This section links to ePortfolios that are primarily for showcasing electronic artifacts. These showcase-oriented ePortfolios are typically utilized by faculty and students for career advancement purposes. more