Publications
Digital tool to enhance student job chances, Daily News, Tanzania, 24 January 2021
Suivi du parcours académique des étudiants africains : Un portfolio en expérimentation en Afrique de l'Est, Educ' Action, 22 January 2021
Digital tool set to enhance students' chances for jobs, University World News, 21 January 2021
Edul@b participates in the EPICA Final Conference - Edulab, edul@b, 23 December, 2020
EPICA - Articulating skills for the workplace is the title of the newest article written about EPICA project published in the 4th edition of the Envisioning Report for Empowering Universities established by EADTU.
KIC ON THE EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE EPICA PROJECT, Knowledge Innovation Centre, December, 2018
EPICA, co-funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, is a project of great promises that is being delivered by a European-African strategic partnership. The initiative aims to bring together businesses, organisations and universities in both Europe and Africa to design an innovative, scalable ePortfolio, which will improve…
EPORTFOLIO AS PEDAGOGY:THRESHOLD CONCEPTS FORCURRICULUM DESIGN, Lyn Lewis, E-Learning and Digital Media, 2017
The ePortfolio has been used in initial teacher education for its storage and presentation func-tions; however, its use as a pedagogic tool to enhance learning outcomes is less common.This study explored students' perceptions of ePortfolio and their learning in a Bachelor ofEducation (primary) programme at a New Zealand university.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS FUTURE ROLE IN STUDENT SUCCESS, by Kevin Pollock, Celeste Schwartz and David Buck, EDUCAUSEreview, 29.01.2018
he increased role technology plays on today's campuses, especially in areas such as data collection, analytics, and predictive modeling, has taken it far beyond a simple support structure. The ability to not only impact student success models but to take leading roles in future success plans requires campus leaders to rethink their IT structures and determine the best ways to maximize IT potential. The ability for IT to be at the forefront of student success models also raises challenges and questions that need to be answered.
INFLUENCE OF E-PORTFOLIO SUPPORTED EDUCATION PROCESS TO ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF THE STUDENTS, M. Fatih Baris and Nilgün Tosun, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 26.11.2013
Problem Statement: In recent years usage of e-portfolio in education has become the topic of many researches. In these researches it is generally emphasized the influences of e-portfolio to the learning attitude, academic success and usage of information technologies.
THE USE OF E-PORTFOLIO-BASED ASSESSMENT TO DEVELOP STUDENTS' SELF-REGULATED LEARNING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING, Ahmet Erdost Yastibas and Gülsah Cinar Yastibas, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 20.02.2015
Traditional assessment ways like multiple choice tests have been used to evaluate students' performance in English language teaching (ELT) at schools, but these assessment methods are not effective and efficient because they do not show the real performance of students. On the other hand, student-centeredness is the main focus of many teaching and learning methods and techniques used in ELT.
COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT IN A COMBINED ASSESSMENT AND COLLABORATIVE E-PORTFOLIO INFORMATION SYSTEM, Aleksandrs Gorbunovs, Atis Kapenieks and Ieva Kudina, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
A necessity to find solutions on how to make the learning process more motivating and efficient still exists. This paper describes the scaffolding e-Portfolio system developed by the research team of Distance Education Study Centre, Riga Technical University. This system differs from traditional e-Portfolio systems by utilizing a motivating approach in the acquiring of competencies, involvement in group-work, increasing responsibility for personal and peer achievements, and comparison of scores, study results, assessments and competency development levels during the whole course study period in two educational systems: university study portal "ORTUS" and e-Portfolio.
AFRICA'S PULSE, AN ANALYSIS OF ISSUES SHAPING AFRICA'S ECONOMIC FUTURE, World Bank Group, October 2017
Following a sharp slowdown over the past two years, a recovery is underway in Sub-Saharan Africa. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the region is expected to strengthen to 2.4 percent in 2017 from 1.3 percent in 2016, slightly below the pace previously projected. The rebound is being led by…
THE LEARNING PORTFOLIO IN HIGHER EDUCATION, Darina Scully, Michael O’Leary & Mark Brown, 2018
The ‘learning portfolio’ is often lauded as a powerful pedagogical tool and, consequently, is rapidly becoming a central feature of contemporary education. This report synthesizes and critically reviews the literature pertaining to its use in universities and higher education institutions specifically….
EUROPORTFOLIO FINAL REPORT, Igor Balaban, 18.05.2016
As you are probably aware, Europortfolio started as a Lifelong Learning project and has been funded with support from the European Commission. We started at the beginning of 2013 and finalized the project by the end of 2015. The project ended, but the portal and the community of ePortfolio experts and practitioners communicating here remain alive and vivid…
EXTENDING MOOC CAPABILITIES WITH DEDICATED NETWORKS: THE E-PORTFOLIO TRAINING CASE, Marcelo Maina, Lourdes Guàrdia & Ivan Alsina Jurnet, 9-12.06.2015
A recent survey (Elaine Allen & Seaman, 2015) on the state of the art of online higher education in the United States shows that academic leaders consider online learning a key strategic issue for their institutions, and this figure has grown from 48.8% in 2002 to 70.8% in 2015. The major role in education of online learning is also attested by international studies like the Docebo (2014) report that depicts the growing market tendency of e-learning worldwide…
