Higher Education, Employer and Employee Engagement through E-portfolios
HE5P Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
Policy-oriented research into the question “Can e-portfolios support the employer engagement agenda, and if so how?” Project Partners Universities
Other Organisations
• Bedfordshire • Bradford • Cumbria • Hull • Leeds Metropolitan • Leicester • Liverpool • Northumbria • Plymouth • Portsmouth • Wolverhampton
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals • Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance • Institute of Physics
Employer Partners (including) • Merseyrail • DeBeers • Hampshire Fire Service • HM Prison Service • Royal Navy • St Mary’s Hospital (Portsmouth) • Price Waterhouse Coopers
Project learning and outputs: Functions and benefits of using e-portfolio tools and technologies, linked to the scenarios/architecture and supported by the evidence from participants. Scenarios, future-oriented but derived from current practice. Information architecture model, linked to the scenarios.
Key e-portfolio functionality to support employer engagement Communication – between distributed peers, tutors and workplace mentors
Collaboration – from commenting on individual work to joint creation
Reflection and integration of institutional with work-based learning
Collection of diverse evidence Presentation – to assessors or future employers