I’m pleased to share the following E-portfolios Update about:

- Accessing VET Learner Attainment Data research - RTOs ability to support & Learners' views

- E-portfolios coming to a place near you

- Other stories and useful e-portfolio resources

Accessing VET Learner Attainment Data - RTOs ability to support & Learners' views

Following on from the research for the 'Verifying VET Learner Attainment Data' 2010 positioning paper, released last month discussing the different kinds of learner verification services available and their applicability to the VET sector and how electronic VET learner information can create efficiencies for 'information consumers', is further research about 'Accessing VET Learner Attainment Data'.

The 'Accessing VET Learner Attainment Data' research is investigating the ability and willingness of registered training organisations (RTOs) to offer electronic learner data as well as the attitude of learners to such services.

Key VET stakeholders, VET managers of learner information, learners, e-portfolio system implementers and developers as well as VET regulatory bodies are currently being surveyed to determine their attitudes about learner controlled, electronic access of their VET learner attainment data, either directly to the RTO or via a 'Learner Record System' (LRS).

This work aims to identify:

where business efficiencies can be realised by allowing learner controlled, electronic access to their VET learner attainment data;

whether this approach would enable RTOs to better meet the AQTF2010 Essential Standards for Continuing and Initial Registration, especially Condition 6: Certification and issuing of qualifications and statements of attainment

This latest work supports the VET E-portfolio Roadmap key goal - 'Verification - to enable verification of educational attainment data, membership of professional associations or trade/occupational licensing information'.

E-portfolios coming to a place near you:

We are usually busy getting out and about speaking with people about E-portfolios activities, but over the coming months we seem to even busier than normal.

We might be coming to a place near you:

Brisbane - 23 June - E-portfolios workshop - more info from Queensland Framework Unit

Perth - 6 July - E-portfolios workshop - A freshen look at RPL - more info from WA Framework Unit

Perth - 7 July - E-portfolios presesentation - Latest research from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework - more info from No Frills Conference

Northern Territory (Online) - 14 July - E-portfolios online session - Resuscitating your recognition with an e-portfolio - more info from NT Framework Unit

Sydney - 6 August - E-portfolios presentation - Investing in e-portfolios for business success - more info from VELG National Conference

Overseas - E-portfolios presentations - ePortfolios 2010 (London) & AAEEBL National Conference (Boston)

We hope to meet you at one of these events but if you can't make any of them you may like to view the recent E-portfolios e-Events recorded online session - Captured Alive - using technology to manage lifelong learning.

Other stories and useful e-portfolio resources

Skilling Solutions Queensland offers an e-portfolio to all customers to support RPL, training and life long career solutions
Skilling Solutions Queensland offers all of its customers access to an e-portfolio. The e-portfolio helps their customers compile their application for RPL (recognition of prior learning), by capturing information about their work experience and on the job development. It will also assist customers with job applications using the e-resume functionality. Formore information about this service click here.

Inaugural international ePortfolios Conference in Boston

The worldwide Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-­Based Learning (www.aaeebl.org) is holding a major international ePortfolios conference in Boston, USA, on 19-22 July, 2010. The conference theme – ePortfolios and the Emergent Learning Ecology – brings together world renowned ePortfolio leaders from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland, and Australia, including the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s E-portfolios Business Manager, Allison Miller as a ‘featured speaker’. To read the blog post adapted from an AAEEBL press release click here.

Additional resources can be found at the E-portfolios Resource Bank, including the VETSA E-portfolio service, which is an e-portfolio sandpit for you to develop your own e-portfolio for free. VET teachers/trainers are encouraged to trial the site with small groups of students. Here is an example of Allison Miller’s VETSA E-portfolio.

Thank you to those people who have shared their good news stories and information with us - if your information has not been published yet please be assured that we will certainly be sharing it in the coming months .......

We are very interested in helping to share good e-portfolio practice and resources via this newsletter, so if you have a case study/information of e-portfolio activity in your organisation or links to e-portfolio resources, please forward them to:

Allison Miller

E-portfolios Business Manager

Australian Flexible Learning Framework

Website: www.flexiblelearning.net.au/e-portfolios

Blog: www.flexiblelearning.net.au/e-portfoliosblog

T: 08 8348 4075

F: 08 8241 5680

M: 0400 732 270

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