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2014 » Papers » Volume 2 » Using the ePortfolio to enhance teaching and learning 1. USING THE EPORTFOLIO TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING Authors: Soare Emanuel Volume 2 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-14-126 | Pages: 460-463 | Download PDF | Abstract
The article focuses on the possibilities of capitalizing the ePortfolio as a pedagogical method for producing integrative learning and as an efficient way to engage students in the curricular activities. It helps teachers in mapping teaching and learning, document student learning and enhancing learning towards the educational outcomes. The instruction process can be rebuilt by extending the use of ePortfolio in teachers' and students' current activity. Therefore, students' learning needs are better met, their learning experience becomes more relevant and the employers can have better proofs as regards the graduates' competences. Thus, it is created a new environment with new learning tools capable of arguing new results of learning. The paper underlines the ways through which the ePortfolio contributes to intentional learning, representing the more efficient way for sustaining students' permanent effort and motivation. Using the ePortfolio allows for a better analysis of the learning progress and a representative collection of the results obtained by students as regards the objectives of the instruction and the competences to be formed. EPortfolio also contributes to integrating students' skills and knowledge which were acquired from various sources of information and learning media in complex systems of competences. They can be capitalized in different theoretical and practical contexts, in and outside school. Integrative learning produced with the help of ePortfolio contributes to the development of self-evaluation skills, thus resulting an authentic evaluation which can satisfy the exigencies of various stakeholders. In order to capitalize the ePortfolios, educational institutions, school managers and teachers must create ePortfolio systems according to the student centered learning approach and the competence based curriculum as stated in the 21st Century Student Outcomes and Support Systems. | Keywords
ePortfolio systems, integrative learning, intentional learning, support systems |
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