Digital Portfolio: a Strategy for Teachers Professional Development

• Main Authors: R. Jans, V. Awouters
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kassel University Press 2008-03-01
• Series: International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
• Subjects: E-portfolio; ICT; PPDP (Personal and Professional Development Plan)
• Online Access: http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/255/236

Teachers have to work with e-portfolio with theirstudents. This is a very demanding task because they neverwere educated with e-portfolio themselves. Therefore aEuropean Comenius project was submitted in 2005. In thisapproved project a whole week formation (april 2007) wasoffered to nineteen teachers from all over Europe. A yearlater they will meet again to see in what way the course hashad effects on their work with e-portfolio and students.Most interesting to notice was that the basic ICT-skills ofteachers are nowadays realized. However teachers are stillbusy with text and text-files. Rarely they uploadedmultimedia, like e.g. photo’s, video’s, youtube-movies, … intheir e-portfolio. The essential element of an e-portfolio, thepersonal and professional development plan, that forms thebackbone of the e-portfolio and offers the possibility tomake the e-portfolio an effective learning instrument wasunknown.