Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space

Found this post on Helen Barrett's blog.

Authors Ellen R. Cohn and Bernard J. Hibbitts write in their article Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space
"... new graduates ... use e-portfolios to showcase their creativity and accomplishments, notably to gain an edge in the job market. Not surprisingly, university career placement centers regard the e-portfolio movement as an opportunity to link academic outcomes to the workplace ... but is a technology-enhanced, show-and-tell, glorified resume [e-portfolio] truly the best result possible? Technologies surely exist to develop more innovative approaches...."

Cohn and Hibbitts say that instead of students generating template, one-size-fits-all e-portfolios, that everyone in the community (young, old, college educated or not) receive a cradle-to-grave, lifetime personal Web space enabling connections among personal, educational, social, and business systems. Read more.