VET E-portfolios Showcase - learning for life

E-portfolios are becoming increasingly popular around the world as a tool to enhance learning and assist with personal career development.

The VET E-portfolios Showcase will bring together leaders in education and training from across Australia to discuss how the national training system can best utilise e-portfolios. Participants will have the opportunity to:

• gain an understanding of how e-portfolios can help to realise key vocational education and training (VET) initiatives, such as:
  
  
  • lifelong learning
  • RPL (recognition of prior learning)
  • fast tracking apprenticeships and traineeships
  • retention and reintegration
  • work-based learning 
    
    
• establish dialogue and networks with key e-portfolio stakeholders
  
  
• access e-portfolio examples and resources through case studies, presentations and discussions, which they can embed into their own organisation.

This event is an opportunity for teachers and trainers; as well as managers of teaching and learning, e-learning and ICT; to discover how e-portfolios can be implemented in training and assessment, and used to support learner transitions beyond formal training. The showcase will include a range of guest speakers and break-out sessions, to encourage collaboration and sharing of ideas and experiences.

Call for presenters

The national training system's e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), is currently seeking submissions for presentations on the way e-portfolios are being used in the Australian VET sector and within organisations and agencies which support lifelong learning.

Presentations are encouraged within the following themes:

• Training and assessment in VET - ie RPL (recognition of prior learning); apprenticeships, trainees and work based learners; re-engaging learners; developing 21st century digital literacy and media skills.
  
  
• Transitioning from VET - ie gaining employment; self/small business promotion; licensing, admissions or professional association processes.
  
  
• Lifelong learning - ie reintegration and reclassification of employees; professional, personal and career development; performance management; regional e-portfolios.
  
  
• Other sectors and agencies - examples from schools, adult community education and higher education or other agencies which support learning.

Presentation summaries of 250 words or less should be submitted online at http://tinyurl.com/lm39xr by Thursday 30 July. Please contact Allison Miller, Business Manager for the Framework's E-portfolios Business Activity on
0400 732 270 or email allison.Miller@tafesa.edu.au for further information.