e-Portfolio Way: Learning through Global Collaboration and Communication for High School Students

Abstract

One of the strong powers of e-Portfolio is to link students who are spread globally to work in a team to tackle with a project. The international high schools in Japan, Taiwan, and the Great Britain took part in the project. While conducting the project, the high school students had chances to brainstorm, discuss, and plan through the e-Portfolio. The high school students in the three countries shared the experience of the difference in cultural values, decision-making process, criteria for judgment, as well as project management. This is an example of Connecting Classrooms East Asia (CCEA) initiated by the British Council Japan in 2008-2009, employing e-Portfolio. The original goal set by the British Council in Japan was to nurture global citizens through this project. This paper reports the successful results of the global collaborative learning of the high school students with different cultural background.