Comments on: Goodbye to eportfolios for a fee? http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/13/goodbye-to-eportfolios-for-a-fee/ Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ray Tolley http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/13/goodbye-to-eportfolios-for-a-fee/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Ray Tolley Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:46:21 +0000 http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/13/goodbye-to-eportfolios-for-a-fee/#comment-122 Hi, Mark, I do not understand the need for 'cloud computing' or certainly the concept of an e-Portfolio for free. Yes, I agree that if intelligent young adults want to spend time building their own e-Portfolios then I would not dream of stopping them. But then my time is money and I would not dream of spending even one hour on building something that can be provided and managed for less than £7 per year. And then, of course, if an e-Portfolio is supposed to be lifelong and lifewide, do you really expect every 5yr-old, the less able, the elderly, those with disabilities or even the busy professional to build an e-safe system that includes full interoperability, links to the MIS of the college etc? I fear that the HE solutions that you suggest create a silo that interupts the very system that you want to establish. BW Ray T Hi, Mark,

I do not understand the need for ‘cloud computing’ or certainly the concept of an e-Portfolio for free. Yes, I agree that if intelligent young adults want to spend time building their own e-Portfolios then I would not dream of stopping them. But then my time is money and I would not dream of spending even one hour on building something that can be provided and managed for less than £7 per year.

And then, of course, if an e-Portfolio is supposed to be lifelong and lifewide, do you really expect every 5yr-old, the less able, the elderly, those with disabilities or even the busy professional to build an e-safe system that includes full interoperability, links to the MIS of the college etc?

I fear that the HE solutions that you suggest create a silo that interupts the very system that you want to establish.

BW

Ray T

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