Introduction of Workshop: e-Portfolio Way

Introduction: The Concept of e-Portfolio

YAMAMOTO, IWASAKI, KUROKAMI, TANABE, EMORI, NAKAZAWA, TAKEKAWA, OKUNUKI

This workshop is for the enthusiastic educators who have been interested in adapting the concept of e-Portfolio in their teaching environment. Instead of just sharing the fundamental concepts of what the e-Portfolio is or can do, this workshop was designed to share the first-hand experiences of the predecessors in various levels of the e-Portfolio already in action.

It is hoped that the audience can take back our experience to their home institutions to enable a paradigm shift in education from the perspective of the e-Portfolio.

Last Update: June, 2012.

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Introduction: The Concept of e-Portfolio
The approach that is employed in this workshop assumes the entire educational realm as its research domain. As shown in Figure I, by setting the ultimate mission of the school to meet the needs in the society where the school is based, all stakeholders can work together to educate the future members of the society. Therefore, building an e-Learning system that manages the learning contents in a course, the syllabus, the learning tools, and evaluation measures, is not our goal here. Rather we need a more holistic system which incorporates not only the LMS but the curriculum mapping, assessment system covering the entire school years.
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