e-Portfolio Way: a Paradigm Shift in Education from K-12 through Graduate School and beyond

Abstract

The theme of this workshop fits in the category for Pedagogy and Education. This half-a-day workshop is intended for the dissemination of the use of e-Portfolio in any segment of academic life targeting at all levels of educators. This workshop starts with an introduction of e-Portfolio to give the audience with the bird’s eye view of what e Portfolio is, and then walks the audience through cases of the e-Portfolio in action in various aspects and levels of education, i.e., the elementary school, the junior high school, the senior high school, the university (student learning and career development), the graduate school, as well as the adult education. Throughout the workshop the audience will experience various uses of e-Portfolio at work at different levels of education reported by the first-hand e-Portfolio educators. The position of this paper is to give the audience/reader the background information as well as the theoretical perspective of making use of e-Portfolio to initiate a paradigm shift in education. The rest of the papers in this workshop represent excellent showcases of the successful implementation of e Portfolio at the various level of education, the summaries of which are included in this paper.