ePortfolio Standards

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ePortfolio Standards

• Griff Richards, Ph.D.
• BCIT Technology Centre
• SFU Surrey

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e Who?

• Art portfolios
• Kindergarten portfolios
• School leaver resumes
• Professional development
• Trades certification
• Assessment portfolios

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e What?

• Collection of achievements
• Communication of knowledge assets
• Reflection of progress
• Annotations by others
• Templates for resumes
• Asset management tools
• Security for access control
• Document authentication schemes

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E - gads!

• Rapid rabid up-take
• Funded projects in EU and US
• Different audiences
• Different systems
• Different technologies
• Different business plans

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ePortfolio Standards IMS

• Current focus on standard record formats for
  moving ePortfolio documents and records from one
  system to another.
• Whether the record belongs to an institute or to
  an individual, it cant be held hostage by the
  software vendor.
• Challenges
• - speed and responsiveness in emerging dynamic
  market
• - integrating current practice with emerging
  software trends
• - encouraging early adoption of unproven
  specifications

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Thank-you

• Griff Richards
• griff_at_sfu.ca