... perhaps the greatest potential for ePortfolios in our era is to connect that growing Personal Historical Learning Consciousness (to coin a phrase) to a rich, Personal Futures Learning Consciousness. I don't believe that the ePortfolio community - nor futurists - have explored that notion much.

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We need to impart a rich, disciplinary view that provides a perspective of changes in the bedrock of human knowledge. We need to provide that enhanced Time Perspective that comes with it, a sense of the collection of events unfolding along a particular trajectory and the ability to project forward into it to determine the possible, probable, and preferable futures. We need students to learn to artfully choose and proactively enact so as to be an agent OF the future. A future-focused ePortfolio could assist people to gain that perspective despite the challenges that:

• The future is surprising and beyond our capacity to predict.


• The future for us today is very different than the future was for most people in ages past.


• We largely assume - wrongly - that tomorrow will be pretty much like today.

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... That reminded me of a statement made by Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat: CQ + PQ > IQ (Curiosity plus Passion is greater than IQ) in the learning process. As I look at my work on ePortfolios, I feel a real disconnect between my vision of the ePortfolio as a way to document the story of deep learning, and the pervasive implementation of ePortfolios as a source of data for accountability and accreditation. As I quoted Hartnell-Young and Morriss in an earlier blog entry, portfolios created for this purpose 'tend to be heavy with documentation but light on passion.'



As I wrap up my current study on ePortfolios in secondary education, I know what I want to study next: this issue of passion, ... excitement, flow and engagement. ... I want to find examples of where students are excited about learning, using ePortfolios as a way to demonstrate that excitement for learning. ... My passion for the last decade (or more) has been ePortfolios, and the related processes that enrich the experience (reflection, digital storytelling). I realize that I have changed my vision from the early days, when I was more focused on assessment and standards-based portfolios. Today, ... my vision has broadened to a more lifelong, life wide perspective. ePortfolios aren't just for schools... in fact schooling may be ruining the experience for a lot of learners. I hope that we can find the passion again in documenting, and better yet, celebrating learning within a worldwide community. That is a future worth working toward.

In its short and dynamic history, the ePortfolio has rapidly moved from the status of simple paperless portfolio to sophisticated ePortfolio Management Systems. Today, the explosion of new social practices emerging from the use of new media, such as social networks and what is commonly referred as Web 2.0, tends to blur the frontiers of ePortfolios. This will have an impact on the technology developed by ePortfolio Management System suppliers, as well as on the standards for making them interoperable with other related information systems.



Is MySpace an ePortfolio? Is 43things an ePortfolio? Is Elgg really an ePortfolio? What is the relationship between an ePortfolio and an ePortfolio Management System? What standards do we need to make ePortfolios interoperable? What ePortfolio parts shouldn't be made interoperable?



The objective of this position paper is to describe an ePortfolio architecture where the response to these questions will be offered, providing a pathway for innovation and standardisation, keeping the power of free personalised expression and interoperability. This will be done through the description of an ePortfolio enabled environment based on the interaction between ePortfolios, personal ePortfolio Systems and organisational ePortfolio Management Systems.

Is MySpace an ePortfolio? Is 43things an ePortfolio? Is Elgg really an ePortfolio? What is the relationship between an ePortfolio and an ePortfolio Management System? What standards do we need to make ePortfolios interoperable? What ePortfolio parts shouldn't be made interoperable?