CIT used to have an e-Portfolio service that did not have a high take up rate. There are several reasons for this that I can think of:
It was provided under the build it and they will come model. I believe not enough was done to convince students and teaching staff about the benefits of building e-Portfolios.
Consequently, no one was willing to integrate this into their course, as part of reflective learning.
Keeping an e-Portfolio was seen as extra work, which neither students nor staff were keen on.
Perhaps the software itself was not very conducive to building e-Portfolios. One key area with users seem to be that the e-Portfolio should have a customisable design and layout (at least on its public face). Our system was not flexible in that aspect. In fact, in the latter years, the option to publish the e-Portfolio was taken away entirely.
The e-Portfolio service was a walled garden. It wasn’t easy to bring in digital artefacts, which may have resided on other public services, nor was it easy to repurpose that information into useful formats – personal reference, actual resume, showcase of work.
No one figured how students would access the e-Portfolios after they graduated as it was all based on our single sign-on system.