1. Supporting further and higher education JISC and its interest in e-Portfolios ‘what's on the horizon?’ Richard McKenna JISC richard.mckenna@bristol.ac.uk

2. JISC and e-Portfolios

3. Horizon Many e-Portfolio Applications –Meeting subject, sector and institutional needs Interoperability –Support to life long learner –Widen participation JISC Development Projects –E-Portfolio related outputs Applications, toolkits, reference models and standards.

4. Interoperability CETIS – Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards ‘www.cetis.ac.uk’ Standards –IMS Learner Information Packaging Specification ‘www.imsglobal.org/profiles/index.cfm’ –IMS e-Portfolio Specification ‘www.imsglobal.org/ep/index.cfm’

5. Interoperability CETIS SIGs – Special Interest Groups –Learner Information Packaging Group ‘www.cetis.ac.uk/groups/200108011243 00/viewGroup’ Centre for Recording Achievement www.recordingachievement.org/

6. ELF e-Learning Framework

7. Service Oriented Architecture ELF –functional factoring based on soa Web Services –XML based –WSDL Web Services Definition Language –SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol –REST Represental State Transfer

8. Development Projects E-Learning Programme –ELF and Open Source Toolkits ‘www.jisc.ac.uk/elearning_framework.html’ –Open Source E-Portfolio Applications ePet, PETAL, and VMAP ‘www.jisc.ac.uk/etools.html’ MLE for Life Long Learning Programme –TransPortALL –Nottingham e-Portfolio ‘www.jisc.ac.uk/mle_lifelonglearning_info.html’