Embedding a generic ePortfolio/PDP tool in a basic skills module for Economics and Business students
An Economics Network funded project 2006-7
Project leader: Paul Latreille
Contact: p.l.latreille@swan.ac.uk
The main aims of the project are accordingly:
- to stimulate and encourage Economics and Business students more fully than has been possible with a paper-based system to adopt a reflective approach to their learning, and to take responsibility for and engage with their personal development;
- to facilitate new and more varied methods of assessment, and also to improve and enhance the value to students of those forms currently deployed; and
- to document/evaluate student and teacher experiences, and thereby offer insights that of value for others in Economics/Business considering such an approach.
Outputs
- Case Study: Exploring the Use of a Generic E-portfolio/PDP Tool in a Basic Skills Module for Economics and Business Students
- PowerPoint slides from DEE2007 conference presentation
- Skills Audit worksheet (Word document)
- A paper has also been submitted to IREE