1 ePortfolios Interoperability and Standards: What, Why, and How Ali Jafari, Ph.D. Professor and Director of CyberLab Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Electronic Portfolio Consortium/NLII EPAC Meeting NLII Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, January 26, 2003, 1:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Claiborne Room, Hyatt Regency, New Orleans
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ePortfolios Interoperability and Standards: What, Why, and HowAli Jafari, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of CyberLabIndiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Electronic Portfolio Consortium/NLII EPAC MeetingNLII Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, January 26, 2003, 1:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Claiborne Room, Hyatt Regency, New Orleans
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AcknowledgmentsThanks to the representatives of the 33 educational and corporate institutions participating in this meeting, with special thanks to those who made last-minute changes in their busy schedule and paid for premium airfare tickets to attend this meeting on January 26, 2003.
A set of tools within a software environment that offers services for collection, reflection, selection, management, and presentation of various academic and professional credentials.
An Electronic Document is one of the primary core components of the ePortfolios package. Examples of Electronic Documents include term papers, class projects, published papers, artistic drawings, or other document saved in digital format.
Electronic Documents come in various formats, such as text files, move clips, audio clips, images and graphics, or any combination thereof in a multimedia package.
An Electronic Document is tagged with a series of metadata information such as who created it, when it was created, for what purpose it was created, who assessed it, identification of its media type, etc.
Electronic Document
ID ---Creator ---Date ---Assessor ---Class ---Media Type -------
Core Components of ePortfolios:Electronic Documents may
uploaded to and maintained on a secure server to protect them from changes to original content once submitted or assessed. This offers a certification feature which verifies that the content of the document is the same as the original content at the time of creation.
Core Components of ePortfolios:An Electronic Document
may be given access rights making it possible for various individuals or groups within or outside an institution or a community to view or to be restricted from viewing that particular document.
The ePortfolio profile contains data consisting of personal and biographical information, academic accomplishments, professional experiences, skills, affiliations, interests, etc.
White papers to identify and specify interoperability and integration requirements among ePortfolios systems, course management system, and student systems, etc.
Review IMS Meta-data Specification, Content Packaging Specification, and Enterprise Specifications for potential refinements to support the requirements of ePortfolios applications
The ePortConsortium facilitates and leads the development and dissemination of the ePortfolios specifications and interoperability measures through collaborative efforts among ePortfolios experts and leaders within higher education and corporate institutions.