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Oxon-Bucks Partnership. e-portfolio story so far…. Context EBITT with 69 trainees £20,000 TDA grant in 2004-5 to set up website and VLE Bespoke site – no annual charge beyond website hosting Encouragement over last three years to trainees to post materials into their ‘folder’
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Oxon-Bucks Partnership e-portfolio story so far…
Context • EBITT with 69 trainees • £20,000 TDA grant in 2004-5 to set up website and VLE • Bespoke site – no annual charge beyond website hosting • Encouragement over last three years to trainees to post materials into their ‘folder’ • 2007-8: optional project to encourage greater dialogue between trainees and tutors – through e-portfolio
E-portfolios – aims • Encourage trainees’ reflective practice through reflective commentaries, individual training plan reviews • Facilitate better communications between trainees and tutors (who they see once a term) • Develop Partnership’s monitoring and quality assurance of school based training using ICT
Word based because • Cheap • Portable • No additional training necessary
Pitfalls we have tried to avoid: • Ensure all trainees, mentors and tutors have access, irrespective of employer • Ensure individual permission levels to protect individuals’ privacy and data • Encourage learning portfolios rather than assessment/presentation portfolios
Minor problems… • Automated emails from website deleted as spam • School network permissions sometimes prevent Word documents being opened (need to liaise with school network manager) • Problems associated with editing web-based documents (forgetting to save first etc)
Future plans Rebuild website with trainees able to allocate permissions to others within the community to access their e-portfolio to encourage: • collaborative construction of knowledge online (Seddon and Posstlethwaite, 2007) • Communities of Practice (CoP) model (Lave and Wenger, 1991) • All trainees to upload all assessment records onto website as part of e-portfolio: reflective commentaries, mentor and tutor reports. Automatically generated database; automated reminders to those who miss deadlines Enable • Partnership to quality assure quality of training via trainees’ e-portfolios