Eportfolios: Determining suitability for a digital learning environment

Eportfolios are new trends for learners to share their development developing skills and competencies they need in their daily life. Connecting online in shared learning networks, learners are able to communicate their own development and support others in theirs. However, choosing a suitable application is not that straightforward when one does not know what to look at. The checklist for Eportfolios is designed to support users in choosing a suitable digital tool to create an Eportfolio. The checklist takes seven educational affordances and core qualities of digital learning environments into account. It focuses on eight pedagogical ideas and concepts for networked learning and discusses fundamental references and functions of Eportfolios. In addition, it is important to take into account how platforms collect and use data provided by learners. Lastly, it will share a critical note at the use of online platforms and surveillance capitalism that thrives in the digital world.

Dirk Visscher
Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Tampere, Finland

Dirk Visscher is a Dutch educator with a decade of experience in international education. After obtaining a bachelor in Spanish education at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg, he worked at the International School of Eindhoven as coordinator and teacher of various programmes in the International Baccalaureate curriculum. He is now researching the impact a training and development programme has on the retention of staff in one of the biggest retail companies in Canada.

Besides a passionate educator, Dirk is also an advocate for children born with clubfoot. Being born with clubfoot yet also involved in many different sport, he understands the struggle for many children and the value moving has for people.

Eportfolios: Determining suitability for a digital learning environment

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