e-Portfolio Reference Model Peter Rees Jones JISC-CETIS e-Portfolio Feasibility Study

Dr Angela Smallwood & Sandra Kingston Centre for International e-Portfolio

Development, University of Nottingham

V2 2006 06 09 PRJ

Standard Pattern:

Apply to HE Use Case

A set of 4 web services help me develop a profile of myself in terms of the course entry profile setting out the requirements for a particular course at a particular HEI. I discuss the profile with my advisor.

(IAG stands for Information, Advice and Guidance. Web Service 4 permits formative assessment for IAG or summative assessment for a formal reference)

Standard Pattern:

Apply to HE Use Case

WS 1 calls the entry profile into a blank structured personal statement

Standard Pattern:

Apply to HE Use Case

WS 1 calls the entry profile into a blank structured personal statementWS 2 helps me draw on my e-P to create a profile

Standard Pattern:

Apply to HE Use Case

WS 1 calls the entry profile into a blank structured personal statementWS 2 helps me draw on my e-P to create a profileWS 3 helps link assertions and activities to evidence in my eP

Standard Pattern:

Apply to HE Use Case

WS 4 allows my adviser to formatively assess the statement AND ALSO allows my referee to make a summative assessment of the statement.

This pattern has a strong association with diagnostic, formative & summative assessment

First iteration: context for the use case

Typically the trigger for the initial use case is an Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) session with an advisor, prompting the potential applicant to use a Discovery Service: Having identified some possibilities I use the Profiling Service. The loop may be completed many times until I wish to make a formal application

This Profiling Serviceenables me to developa profile of myself in terms of the profile of

an opportunity, such as an HE course or a job.

2nd iteration: feedback & induction

There is an outline spec of web services for a centralised admissions process that can produce feedback.

I am given a commented version of the assessed statement. I use WS 1-4 to re-factor the statement & meet my HE advisor for the 1st time. I draw up an action plan for my HE use of e-Portfolio.

Third iteration

Unsuccessful applicants receive the same feedback that they review before meeting their advisor.

Service Use Case

Centralised HE Admissions yielding Feedback

Locating e-Portfolio

• Here, an e-Portfolio engine provides and receives information from a service.

• The services do not have to be part of the same system as the e-Portfolio

Locating e-Portfolio

• For example, the Discovery Service in this instance is not directly linked to the e-Portfolio.

• Services and repositories can be indirectly related to e-Portfolio.

Thin e-Portfolio for 14 – 19 Specialised Diplomas

Neither the services consuming and producing information nor the repositories storing that information

need to be contained within an e-Portfolio system.