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"This paper presents an exploratory study of the potential for offering students elements to construct their own personal learning environments, through a combination of an e-portfolio and integrated learning platform. The intention was to integrate an institutional virtual learning environment; an e-portfolio for assembling work, where the students can include ideas and reflections and create their own work; and social networks as powerful communication tools, particularly of an informal nature. The study aims to find out whether students think that an e-portfolio can improve project assignments when used in collaborative group work; whether this independent way of learning enriches collaborative work and reciprocity among the members of each group so that a knowledge-building process is generated in the case study in question; and whether using e-portfolios contributes more effectively to the achievement of the course's proposed learning outcomes."
"At the end of the year the Sophomores in Ms. Beach's Honors English class completed two final projects. For their group project, they chose a theme or an era in literature and then created a webpage using the new e-portfolio system connected to Moodle called Mahara. For their individual projects, they created personal portfolios reflecting on work done during the year."