Can We Talk? Electronic Portfolios as Collaborative Learning Spaces

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Author(s): Gary Greenberg (Northwestern University, USA)
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 9
Source title: Handbook of Research on ePortfolios
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ali Jafari (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)and Catherine Kaufman (ePortConsortium, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-890-1.ch050

Keywords: Adult Learning / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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This chapter describes the Northwestern University Collaboratory Project’s ePortfolio. As a resource in the Collaboratory, a Web-based collaborative learning environment, it provides collaborative learning spaces where K-12 students can share and discuss their work. Web document templates are used by students to create media-rich documents that can be viewed with only a Web browser. Of particular significance is how the ePortfolio’s document-based communication model is being used to support mentoring, peer review, feedback, and reflection, and to facilitate a community of learning that motivates and encourages students.

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