Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Portfolio Ideas

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18: Re: Portfolio Ideas (response to 1)
Posted by Nick Carroll on
Hi Bruce,

I think Rafael is correct in making the distinction between an LMS and an ePortfolio. An LMS is teacher centric, and an ePortfolio is student centric. The scenario that you described would be best handled by an LMS such as dotlrn. Once the assessment has been graded, the student could then export the assessment and teacher's comments from the LMS to their eportfolio. The LMS should be used as a place for the student to fabricate learning artifacts, and the ePortfolio should be a place for archiving these artifacts.

I will be modifying the file-storage package so that the user interface displays reflection options next to a file. That way the student can link a file to a blog entry for reflection, or to a more structured form-based reflection exercise. This package will be called "repository".

Regards,
Nick.