A Proposed Framework For E-portfolio Use to Enhance Teaching and Learning: Process E-portfolio
The process e-portfolio is a type of e-portfolio that helps students construct knowledge and familiarise themselves with their learning process through self-and peer assessment. Lecturers and students experienced difficulties when using the e-portfolio because Mahara 2019 was not updated. This qualitative research study proposes how lecturers should design e-portfolios for learning through formative assessment activities. Interpretivism was the researcher's standpoint, aiming to interpret how the study participants used e-portfolios for teaching and learning through formative assessment activities. This exploratory case study used semi-structured interviews and an e-portfolio checklist for data collection. It explored the use of the e-portfolio for formative assessment through the experiences of ten purposefully sampled lecturers. The findings suggest that an e-portfolio facilitates teaching and learning in open distance e-learning because it enables online delivery of the content and administering of assessments that afford students' learning of the module content through completing formative assessment activities. The e-portfolio facilitates co-teaching and co-learning because students become knowledge creators and active users instead of passive learners. This study recommends the use of process e-portfolios to facilitate assessment and learning in open-distance e-learning institutions.
Authors
- Xolani Moffat Majola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3190-8065)
Institutions
- University of South Africa (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Educational Methodology
- Published
- 2025-02-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12973/ijem.11.1.63
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 8.93