The document outlines a focus group to recommend an eportfolio application for a college. It defines eportfolios and lists considerations around content, pedagogy, and technology. The process involves identifying criteria, potential applications, constructing a matrix to evaluate applications, selecting one or more based on the matrix, and submitting a recommendation. A needs assessment and requirements/timeline are also discussed.

1. VCC ePortfolio StakeholdersFocus Group

2. Purpose To recommend an ePortfolio application that meets the needs of VCC stakeholders to the Distributed Learning Committee.

3. Definition An electronic portfolio is: a collection of authentic and diverse evidence, drawn from a larger archive representing what a person or organization has learned over time on which the person or organization has reflected, and designed for presentation to one or more audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose. Helen Barrett. Conflicting Paradigms in Electronic Portfolio Approaches. http://electronicportfolios.com/systems/paradigms.html

4. Considerations Content Pedagogy Technological Technological, Pedagogical and Content addressed

6. Identify potential applications

7. Construct Matrix

8. Select application(s) based on Matrix

10. Needs Assessment

12. Create master list of criteria for survey

13. Compile list of potential applications

14. Construct Matrix

15. Complete survey

16. Select application(s)

18. Applications: