Stephen Downes

Good article from Ray Tolley - not sure when it was written - outlining the advantages of an e-portfolio. Advocates would do well to take note of the criteria: "It is not modelled on any particular curriculum delivery system nor content," for example, or "It is not a permanent repository of all of a user's files, rather a 'transit camp'." These conditions, I would say, give us good criteria for distinguishing between an actual e-portfolio system, and one of the fake systems erroneously called an 'e-portfolio' by some software vendor. From the same author: Who's Hijacking Our e-Portfolios?. Again, a recommended read.