International

Information for our international colleagues, including related news and projects.

Useful information on International membership can be found here

The most recent edition of the INCPER newsletter can be found here

Cohort Project

Ten universities from mainland Europe, the UK, and the US, are participating in a 2007-2010 cohort of the International Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research. The introductory outline can be downloaded here

An Associate Partner of the Higher Education Academy (UK) 

in association with: 

The Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research

The National Action Research Network (NARN)

The Scottish PDP Forum 

The Second International Residential Seminar 

‘Researching and Evaluating

Personal Development Planning and e-Portfolio.’

National College for School Leadership, Nottingham, UK

26-28th April 2010

Electronic portfolios are a rapidly developing global phenomenon.  In the UK, many Higher Education Institutions have chosen to use e-portfolio systems to support the implementation of Personal Development Planning (PDP). PDP supports students in recording and reviewing achievements, reflecting and planning for personal, educational and career development. This approach is highly congruent with other initiatives across the world, such as the AeP project in Australia, the work of SURF in the Netherlands and the recently-formed Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) in the US. These initiatives use e-portfolio tools to promote self-regulated, personalised or integrative learning, to align assessment with learning and to support transitions.

 Key seminar themes are:

1. Tutoring, mentoring, coaching for e-portfolio and PDP practice.
2. The development of identity and autonomy (inc. self-regulation/personalised learning).
3. Engagement: student, staff and community perspectives (inc. staff/ professional development, employability).
4. Supporting integrative and reflective learning (inc. co/extra-curricular learning, assessment and feedback, work-based/service learning).
5. Institutional change (inc. scaling up, achieving institutional transformation, drivers such as retention, progression, inclusion, achievement).
6. Researching e-portfolios and personal development planning: tools, methods, approaches.

As with the first highly successful international seminar held in Oxford in 2006, this event will bring together international researchers, practitioners and HE managers to further develop a community of practice that will:

• share critically evaluated practice amongst e-Portfolio and PDP practitioners;
• showcase work undertaken by the National Action Research Network for PDP and e-Portfolio and the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research;
• continue to build research capacity by supporting emergent research and researchers;
• encourage a critique of current research, monitoring and evaluation practices;
• facilitate further discussion of appropriate research and evaluation methods;
• contribute a robust evidence-base to underpin the effective implementation and use of e-Portfolios and PDP.

 
For more information please contact Amy Marsden, amy@recordingachievement.org