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By LaGuardia's Center for Teaching and Learning (also cited here), this site provides tutorials as well as samples for students and faculty interested in ePortfolios. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

"Whether you're a student building your ePortfolio, an educator using ePortfolios for teaching and learning, or you're interested in the growing ePortfolio field, we invite you to explore the many resources available here at ePortfolio@LaGuardia. "

This page links to a gallery of student ePortfolios at LaGuardia Community College. In left-hand navigation, you can select ePortfolios at varying levels.

By Belinda Allen and Kathryn Coleman (both of University of New South Wales), proceedings of ascilite 2011 conference, Australia, December 2011. ascilite is the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. "The paper explores creativity as a graduate capability, the creative potential of digital media, and how changing directions in assessment practice could support the assessment of creativity, with a focus on using eportfolios in assessment." Full text, as PDF, available on this page.

The International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is a new journal from Virginia Tech that will begin publication in the summer of 2011. Manuscript submission to begin Jan 2011. IJeP is to be a "double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal freely available online."

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This resource hosts communities for members to contribute and share learning and teaching materials. The communities are categorized by higher education disciplines. In addition to contributing materials, members can comment about outside learning materials that are used, share information about themselves and knowledge about their discipline, put together personal collections to use in the classroom and become a Peer Reviewer of learning materials in member's discipline. In addition to discipline communities, there is the Community of MERLOT Partner Academic Support Services (COMPASS). This community is made up of ePortfolio, Faculty Development, Library and Information Services, Online Courses and Pedagogy. The ePortflio Portal centers educational resources around ePortfolio use in higher education, among students and faculty. Partner Communities like GLOBE extend the MERLOT network. The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance was established between ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Services Austrailia, LORNET in Canada, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan and MERLOT with the goal to "work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content." The majority of MERLOT members are faculty/instructors and the balance are students, campus administrators, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning materials, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation.

Originally EPAC, or Electronic Portfolio Action Committee (currently called Electronic Portfolio Action and Communication) formed within EDUCAUSE , this is an association of national leaders in ePortfolios formed in 2008. In the Fall of 2010, AAEEBL will have its first annual conference.

By Trent Batson in Campus Technology, May 20 2009. Batson argues that, though the e-Portfolio movement seems to have gained some traction in recent years, the technology offerings are still inadequate, and the rate of successful adoption and integration is also low. He introduces a new organization, the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL), a professional association that focuses on e-Portfolios. Follow the aaeebl tag for more.

See page 3, where LaGuardia is included in the list of "shining examples of good work" on the e-Portfolio front!

This chapter from Dr. Yu-Chung Chang's ePortfolio describes her work helping her students at Pasadena City College overcome their math anxiety.

By Marisa A. Klages and J. Elizabeth Clark, in Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), v 28 (1), p. 32-49, 2009. Authors (both GSCC faculty) look at using ePortfolio with basic writers.

MyCompLab, a product of Pearson Education, "empowers student writers and facilitates writing instruction by uniquely integrating a composing space and ePortfolio with proven resources and tools." (from What Is page).

We've had a lot of prior discussion on MyMathLab (MML). In the April 2010 coffeeklatch, NH asked about MyCompLab.

Dr. Helen Barrett blogs about electronic portfolios and digital storytelling.

By Enrique Mu, Sallie Wormer, Roberta Foizey, Beverly Barkon, and Mark Vehec in Educause Quarterly (EQ) vol 33 (1), 2010.

By Lynn Z. Bloom in Writing on the Edge, 13(2), pp 67-82, Spring 2003. This is a link to the article's abstract in ERIC. For full-text of the article, contact your college library.

JE mentions this article in a thread discussing the ethics of privacy around student work as presented in faculty ePortfolios and other GSCC-related areas.

Lumina Foundation Focus, Winter 2011. This issue concentrates on learning: what are students learning, what should they be learning, what knowledge skills and other competencies must they have to thrive? Marisa Klages discusses the role of e-Portfolios.

G.M. posted the link to this publication in March coffee klatch