Details have been updated on the Australian E-portfolio Symposium, which will be held at Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus on 9 – 10 February 2009.  The theme is establishing an ePortfolio community of practice.

Findings from the research undertaken as part of the Australian ePortfolio Project [previously reported in this blog] revealed that there was a high level of interest in the use of ePortfolios in the context of higher education … [but] ePortfolio practice in Australian universities is currently fragmented. The goal of the AeP2 Symposium is to begin to bring together the different pieces of the ePortfolio puzzle to … [improve] the quality of learning and the value of higher education outcomes.

Topics include:

• Determining the impact of ePortfolios on student learning outcomes
• Discipline specific initiatives, eg education, nursing, law, medicine, science, design
• ePortfolios to capture and present professional standards
• ePortfolios to capture and present graduate attributes
• Developing students’ reflective skills
• ePortfolios in the Web 2.0 environment
• International technical standards
• Challenges and opportunities in ePortfolio implementation

Registration (free) is now open.

Filed under: Conferences and Workshops, E-portfolios by Agnes Bosanquet