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February 19th, 2008

Developing tools to support work based competence development: e-Portfolios and apprenticeship

Attwell, Graham and Elferink, Raymond

INAP Conference Vienna, 2008

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There is increasing interest in the development and implementation of e-Portfolios in education and training. E-Portfolios are seen as offering significant pedagogic innovation, as providing a vehicle for authentic assessment and providing a record of life long learning. However, the major focus for e-Portfolio development and implementation has been in Higher Education and their appears to have been little take up in vocational education and training, still less in apprenticeship programmes.

Developing an Architecture of Participation

Attwell, Graham and Elferink, Raymond

Conference ICL2007, 2007

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This paper focuses on work undertaken through the European Commission funded Bazaar project to establish a community of practice for researchers and practitioners in open source software and open content. The paper considers the use of social software to support such a communitty of practice. It consiers some of the theories and ideas behind supporting communities before going on to outline the design of an Architecture of Participation.

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