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ePortfolio Program

ITMS provides technical support and training for UW's ePortfolio program. Contact either Alan Kirker, Jan Willwerth. If you are an instructor interested in hearing about how eportfolios can benefit your course, contact Katherine Lithgow from the Centre for Teaching Excellence.

What is an ePortfolio?

An ePortfolio presents a collection of student-created projects or "artifacts" combined with work histories, academic transcripts and other "competencies" in a database-driven, web-based interface. This exciting new venue provides potential employers or other academic institutions a much broader insight into a student's capabilities... that can and often extend well beyond a standard resume.

Electronic Portfolios are an archive of one's work, achievements, ideas, thoughts and feelings which reflect an individual's intellectual, emotional and social developments- in essence, they are a document of an individual's learning over time. Having students create an ePortfolio supports a holistic approach to learning which moves students beyond simply attaining a grade in a course to being able to clearly articulate what they have learned as well as to identify areas for improvement or further learning. This approach to learning implies that students will reflect on their own learning and by doing so will be able to better integrate their various learning experiences.

Currently we are using the KEEP Toolkit as a means for creating online ePortfolios because of its relative ease-of-use. Coupled with this is the notion this tool enables students' individual ePortfolios to be shared online, and not with with the world at large until the students feel ready to do so.