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 * [[image:issues.jpg width="384" height="54"]] || === Background and Links ===

Recommendations for eLearning Strategy
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 * == Background and Links == || E-portfolios are used in many courses across the Polytechnic. They address a number of key focus areas in the current Tasmanian Polytechnic Strategic Plan. Common reasons for using e-portfolios are:
 * collecting and displaying evidence of learning
 * recognition of prior learning
 * reflective practice
 * industry use of folios eg nursing
 * folio of work for potential employer
 * learning communities and mentoring
 * resume building and pathway planning

Online services used for e-portfolios include
 * blogs (eg Blogger or WordPress)
 * wikis (eg Wikispaces)
 * e-portfolio system (eg Mahara)
 * online albums and galleries (eg Flickr or Deviant Art)

The Polytechnic has a representative on the national Eportfolio Reference Group and uses the e-portfolio documents below to inform the provision and use of e-portfolios. The Polytechnic has several instances of the Mahara e-portfolio system all of which are hosted externally.

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 * [[image:eportfolio.jpg align="center" link="@http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/e-portfolios-4"]] || **E-portfolios, Australian Flexible learning Framework**

The **E-portfolios - Managing Learner Information** business activity aims to establish a national standards-based approach to the use of e-portfolio technologies for managing learner information, between VET, other educational sectors and employment.

E-portfolio Blog

The following **e-portfolios brochures** are available for use in the VET sector.

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 * Learners – what do you need to consider when developing your e-portfolio as a learner?
 * Teachers and trainers – how would your teaching or training philosophy affect the incorporation of e-portfolios into your program?
 * CEOs and managers – how can you create a more client-centred culture within your organisation?
 * IT and teaching and learning support staff – what do you need to consider when supporting teachers, trainers or managers to introduce e-portfolio-based learning?
 * Employers, professional bodies and career services – how can you enhance your employment processes or the employability and career planning of learners in your organisation?
 * Employees - how can you use e-portfolios to support your learning and development?
 * [[image:eportfolio-roadmap.JPG width="210" height="153" align="center" link="@http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/e-portfolio-information"]] || ** The VET E-portfolio Roadmap: a strategic roadmap for e-portfolios to support lifelong learning**

The VET E-portfolio Roadmap was commissioned by the national training system’s e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s national E-portfolio business activity2 in 2008 to assist in the development of a national standards-based framework to support interoperable e-portfolio systems in the national training system. ||
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