Fostering Reflective Practice through E-Portfolios in Higher Education

Thomas Sporer; Klaus Bredl

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1720–1724

The paper gives an overview of a method to assess competencies in a project-based study program which integrates self-organized communities of practice into bachelor/master programs. In addition to the formal curriculum, students are encouraged to...

Developing a platform for the integration of informal learning into the formal curriculum of higher education

Thomas Sporer; Tobias Jenert; Philip Meyer; Johannes Metscher

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3063–3070

At the University of Augsburg a co-curricular study program has been introduced which makes it possible to integrate informal project activities into the formal curriculum of the bachelor/master program "Media and Communication". This paper gives an ...

Topics: Research Methods, Social Studies, Software, Integration, Educational Technology

Distributed e-Portfolios to Recognise Informal Learning

Fridolin Wild; Thomas Sporer; Agnieszka Chrzaszcz; Johannes Metscher; Steinn Sigurðarson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5830–5838

This paper shows how informal learning experiences can be integrated into institutional formal learning processes by using blog-based networked ePortfolios. First, we briefly introduce into the realm of learning in distributed environments like...

Topics: Portfolios, Information Sciences, Networking Technologies, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology