Following my referers this morning led me to David Tosh's newly created blog. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of
Edinburgh, focusing on ePortfolio research. From there I found the site for ePortfolio Canada 2004, "The First Canadian
ePortfolio Working Forum", which will take place in Vancouver in mid-April. It's nice to see this area of interest getting organized here in Canada.


I'm pretty sure the interest in ePortfolios is going to boom over the
next one or two years. Here's a recent document from Berkeley U. that explains
the concept and its possible relevance to the future of education. It offers the
following definition of ePortfolio:



I don't know about you, but to me this sounds awfully close to a weblog
tool... the document also lists five practical uses for ePortfolios
once they are in students' hands, which won't come as a surprise if
you've been following eLearning/KM bloggers' discussions (Lilia you're going to love this!):

1. Storage
2. Information management
3. Connections
4. Communication
5. Development

And while I'm speaking of ePortfolios, I should mention Alan Levine's recent announcement of an experimental ePortfolio initiative at Maricopa.
[Seb's Open Research]