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Electronic Portfolios: Personal information, personal development and personal values

Simon Grant, Consultant

In this book, Simon Grant draws our attention to the importance of considering values, as well as skills, when envisioning how e-portfolios can aid both in personal and professional development and the process matching people with institutions through which they learn and work. He examines the services needed to develop values and skills in tandem and the important role of critical friends in creating a social environment conducive to such development.
Darren Cambridge - Assistant professor of Internet studies and information literacy, George Mason University. Associate director, Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research

Finally! Simple, straight talk that shies away from none of the issues that connect and intertwine with e-portfolios. A matter of fact conversation with the reader, that helps to make sense of the multiple and intertwined issues that spin around e-portfolios. Whatever your curiosity, interest or challenge related to e-portfolios, Simon Grant helps clear the path and broaden your e-portfolio horizon.
Samantha Slade – E-portfolio expert, co-founder of percolab

Good information analysis. Useful in process development and implementation. Emphasis on ethical issues links up to personal ownership that needs first priority attention.
Wijnand Aalderink and Marij Veugelers – SURF NL Portfolio, Dutch portfolio expert group

 - the only book with a coherent future vision of the e-portfolio field grounded in current practice
 - brings together principles, technologies and practical guidance for users and practitioners

This book explains the motivations for building and using portfolio tools, and clarifies the principles and practice of using and developing them for assessment, recording personal information, self-presentation, personal and professional development, and for subtler and deeper aims of encouraging a reflective approach to learning, practice and life, developing personal identity, and ethical development towards moral agency. The book also offers a stimulating future vision to orient those with a longer-term perspective on the directions in which portfolio tools and related technology are advancing.

Readership: Those involved in e-portfolio and related practice, development and research.

£49.50 / US$85.00 / €60.00

About the author

Simon Grant has researched in cognitive science, taught and trained in universities and schools, run his own business, and is now a freelance consultant specialising in e portfolio systems and interoperability. For over ten years he has been closely involved in the e portfolio field, with many projects in the areas of lifelong learning, personal development planning, e-portfolios, and skills, and has played a vital role in the UK and European standards communities in these areas. For several years he has helped to run the JISC CETIS (Joint Information Systems Committee; Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Standards) Portfolio community of practice, bringing together portfolio practitioners and developers. Along with his wife, Anna, he has a live interest in ethical development, personal values, and personal identity. They are planning to apply their insights directly to the world of business.

Contents

PART 1 PRINCIPLES OF E-PORTFOLIO SYSTEMS
PART 2 HOW TO DO THINGS WITH E-PORTFOLIO AND RELATED TOOLS
PART 3 FUTURE VISION

Introduction
 - Guide for readers
 - E-portfolio systems: purpose, information, functionality
 - What this book is not
 - What is so personal?
 - References and further reading

PART 1 PRINCIPLES OF E-PORTFOLIO SYSTEMS

Some scenarios of e-portfolio use
 - Assessment
 - Presentation for transition
 - Development of skills in general
 - Learning to learn and reflect
 - Application for a job
 - References and further reading

Who wants personal information?
 - Ourselves
 - Educators
 - Employers
 - Public agencies
 - Friends and the peer group
 - References and further reading

The rationale behind recording and storing personal information
 - Allowing others access to our information
 - Reuse across time and context
 - Coordinating permissions
 - Recording helps self-knowledge

Portfolio purposes outlined
 - Reflective purposes
 - Purposes focusing on information use by others
 - Purposes spanning use by ourselves and others
 - Ancillary or related purposes
 - References and further reading

Portfolio information
 - Historical and current practice
 - Information relevant to purposes
 - The inherent nature of portfolio information
 - Kinds of information that are relevant to e-portfolios
 - One particular relationship: evidence
 - Other aspects of portfolio information
 - References and further reading

Issues with portfolio information
 - Data protection outline
 - Authentication and verification
 - Information interoperability
 - Centralised and distributed storage of personal information
 - References and further reading

The need for common terms in portfolio information
 - The positive and negative role of ICT for common terms and definitions
 - References and further reading

Portfolio functionality
 - Input and storage functions
 - Management, maintenance and elaboration functions
 - Reuse and communication functions

Applying e-portfolio principles
 - What is the purpose?
 - What information is relevant?
 - What functionality is helpful?
 - Tools for education
 - Summary
 - References and further reading

PART 2 HOW TO DO THINGS WITH E-PORTFOLIO AND RELATED TOOLS

How to use tools for assessment
 - Perspectives
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Choice of tools
 - Other action points to consider
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

How to use tools for recording significant personal information
 - Perspectives
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Choice of tools
 - Other action points to consider
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

How to use tools for self-presentation
 - Perspectives
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Choice of tools
 - Other action points to consider
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

How to use tools provided for your own development
 - Perspectives
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Action points to consider
 - Choice of tools
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

How to motivate and help others to use tools
 - General considerations on motivation
 - Perspectives
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Action points to consider
 - Choice of tools
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

How to develop e-portfolio tools
 - Perspectives
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Action points to consider
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

How to coordinate e-portfolio and administrative tools
 - Perspective
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Action points to consider
 - Choice of tools
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

How to develop interoperability in tools
 - Perspective
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Action points to consider
 - Other points
 - Summary of relevant principles

How to publish terms for common use by tools
 - Perspective
 - Why do you want to do this?
 - Questions to think about
 - Action points to consider
 - Summary of relevant principles
 - References and further reading

PART 3 FUTURE VISION

Notes on portfolio environments and values
 - The possible social environments of assessment and presentation
 - What are personal values?
 - So why are people not (yet) more enthusiastic about e-portfolios?
 - References and further reading

Matching information for people
 - The difficulties of the current employment and education markets
 - How matching should work for education and employment
 - Development for matching
 - Synergy with matching for other reasons
 - References and further reading

Personal values, identity and personality
 - Different situations and contexts
 - Roles
 - Different values in different contexts
 - References and further reading

Developing personality and personal values
 - How personal values may develop naturally
 - Tools and practice supporting the development of values
 - References and further reading

Ethical development and values in society
 - Values tourism
 - The small group
 - Values and trust
 - More difficult problems
 - The values associated with e-portfolio tools and practices
 - References and further reading

The culture of information and choice: an analogy with the development of agriculture
 - References and further reading

In conclusion?