e-Portfolio for Personal Tutoring

• What is e-Portfolio?

• Practice and success

• Improvements and limitations

• Confidentiality, data sharing and standardised practice

• Conclusions

What is e-Portfolio ‘and why are they saying such awful things about it’?

• Electronic portfolio to be rolled out across the university;

• Allows tutors to schedule meetings with tutees;

• Provides an oversight of arranged meetings;

• Allows tutors/tutees to add notes about the content of their meetings.

Practice and Success

• 85% - used to schedule meetings• 54% - added notes • 77% - could see why adding notes would be

beneficial (even if they did not do it this time round)• 71% - instances where notes were added by the

tutor• Of this 71%, 60% would not consider

delegating this job to the tutee

Improvements and Limitations

• Lack of willingness

• NESS is too similar / favoured

• Should be more like social media

• Lack of Outlook integration

• Tutors’ absence

Confidentiality, Data Sharing and Standardised Practice

• ‘Some teaching aspects may benefit from it being like social media’

• ‘There is the risk of accidentally sharing something with somebody who you don’t want to see it’

• ‘No [to social media idea], I’m always weary about confidentiality’

• ‘No it should be private and strictly confidential by default. It’s not a social media space’

• ‘I’d prefer a confidential route – how would you regulate police social media?

ConclusionsFirth (2010) and Symonds (2010) – for e-Portfolios to be successful they have to replace previous practice, and be embedded into standardised practice

• Willingness of tutors• How should e-Portfolio be ‘sold’ to unwilling tutors?

• Standardised approach to managing information• Senior Tutor?• University-wide or school-based?

• Engagement of students• How to engage?• How to enforce?