About ePortfolio

why ePortfolio?

In recent years electronic portfolios (known as ePortfolios) of student work have become more popular, taking over from paper-based versions (Avraamidou and Zembal-Saul, 2006). Benefits include better educational outcomes afforded by the ability to annotate and contextualise items in the portfolio, as well as the ability to cut and paste text into other applications.

ePortfolios facilitate reflection, recording and articulation of the university experience and hence have connections to our capacity to (as the AUQA audit recommends) "embed the Graduate Attributes into the curriculum and into teaching and assessment practices" as well as draw on the individual's whole of life experiences outside the curriculum. In addition, some accrediting bodies such as the NSW Institute of Teachers and the Australian Medical Association have made it compulsory for graduating students to show evidence of learning outcomes against complex sets of over 40 Professional Skills criteria.