ePortfolios are a digital compilation that presents accomplishments, products, experiences, reflections, etc. over a specific period of time and/or experience (e.g., a degree program).

Learner Applications: Communicate, demonstrate, reflection, journaling, review materials, peer critique

Instructor Applications: Provide feedback, check for understanding, assess, review, assign value to student work, advise

Examples:

• John Lee Geography
• Pre-law

Services:

• Electronic Portfolio Consortium list of vendors -
• EduTools ePortfolio Review - compares functions, requirements, technical specifications of several commercial providers.
• KEEP Toolkit - Web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web.
• Protopage - Create your own webpage
• Visual CV - although not designed to be an ePortfolio in the tradiational sense, this tools allows some of the functions of a portfolio, without interaction or comments.
• Wikispaces - For K-12 educators
  

Successful Practices:

References:
ePortfolio Consortium - is an association of individuals from 67 countries and more than 800 higher educational and IT commercial institutions from around the world, a group of people interested in the development of academic ePortfolio software systems and the establishment of interoperability standards for such systems.
ePortoflios - George Siemens explains organizational and functional perspectives on the use of ePortfolios.
Helen Barrett’s Resources -
Jafari, A. (ed.) (2006). Handbook of research on ePortfolios. Hershey, USA: IGI.