ePortfolio traditions that are ready to be broken and new ones ready to be established

Abstract

Although ePortfolio practices have been with us for a good 20+ years, in some form or another, the options that students and staff now have to represent their professional experiences have expanded over recent years. This is largely due to the plethora of online platforms that allow a user-friendly and templated experience, giving students freedoms they have not previously had, unless they had website development skills. This paper will report on a study of current ePortfolio platform options provided by institutions in Australasia, highlighting a divergence in, and opinions around, what constitutes contemporary good practice. It is fair to say that what was once seen as the responsibility of an institution to provide a dedicated ePortfolio platform for their students has started to fracture and that many institutions are now opting to mediate third-party and/or discipline-relevant options for their students. This paper will look at the pros and cons of these options, but also some emerging trends brought on by the advent of Generative AI, that institutions can now take advantage of.