PESC Academic ePortfolio Workgroup Developing XML Schema Structure

In continuing its mission of transparent, community-based collaboration, the Postsecondary Electronics Standards Council (PESC) and ePortfolio California will convene a workshop session around academic ePortfolios at the PESC Spring 2012 Data Summit, May 2 - 5, 2012. John Ittelson, Co-Chair of the Academic ePortfolio Workgroup, will host the workshop which will discuss the group's progress in developing an XML schema around academic ePortfolios. 

Development will be modeled on existing PESC schemas and will incorporate PESC High School Transcript and College Transcripts.

"We'll be looking at non-PESC components for work history such as HR-XML and Europass CV," says Ittelson, "and a reusable structure for author self-reflection and for 3rd party comments."  Development will also support the inclusion of and reference to student artifacts.

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New Issue of International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) Now Available

The new issue of the International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP), a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal, is now available online at: http://www.theijep.com/current.cfm

The following types of articles comprise Volume 2, Number 1 of IJeP:

Instructional, assessment, technology, policy, and management; and book reviews.

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Generative Learning, MPortfolios and Exploring How We Know What We Know

ePortfolio California presents Melissa Peet's sold-out keynote presentation from the 2011 AAC&U ePortfolio Forum.

Have you ever had one of those "aha!" moments when you realize you already know the answer to a question or challenge but you have no idea how you know it or where you learned it?

Melissa Peet, Academic Director for the Integrated Learning and MPortfolio Initiative at the University of Michigan, and co-Leader of the Integrative Knowledge Collaboration, explains this as unconscious, or tacit, knowledge that is "comprised of skills and essential insights about the world that we utilize but are rarely aware of".  In this one hour presentation, Melissa addresses this concept by providing an overview to the principles, research and practices related to “Generative Learning” - a teaching, assessment and eportfolio methodology that supports students in integrating the explicit (conscious and formal) knowledge they’ve gained in their academic courses, with the tacit (unconscious and informal) insights, skills and capacities they’ve acquired from life experience. This methodology was developed at the University of Michigan and is now part of MPortfolio Process – a campus-wide eportfolio effort.

View all 2011 AAC&U ePortfolio Forum Sessions.

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