Study Report about ePortfolios and the electronic European Language Portfolio (eELP)

Thomas Jöckel working at the Fachhochschule Fulda for the media-net-works project made a research on ePortfolios and eELPs. The aim was to evaluate a possible use of electronic portfolios in the media-net-works project.

Summary of the ePortfolio Study Report:
Using ePortfolios in media-net-works could be very useful to document learner's achievements. The use of the eELP might also be useful for the documentation of the language experience of the students.

Unfortunately the development of electronic Portfolios has just begun. The available open source ePortfolio software does not cover all functionalities of a portfolio or is not flexible enough. No final whitepaper defining an ePortfolio has been published. The development of the eELP is also at the beginning. Therefore it is too early to use ePortfolio software in media-net-works.
But the field of ePortfolios is very interesting and could be very useful in the future. The development in this area should be observed very carefully.
For the year 2005 a whitepaper for ePortfolios and a first prototype for the eELP is announced.

The whole report is available for download as a .pdf (3MB) file