Portfolio SIG relations

=Higher Education Academy= JISC and CETIS collaborate with the Academy: here are links to
 * JISC's page about the JISC-Academy partnership, and
 * the Academy's page on their partnership.

The Portfolio SIG has a particular interest in the portfolio-related aspects of the collaboration, partly in view of the fact that the CRA is an Associate Centre of the Academy.

JISC's page about work with the Academy links to the Academy page on Distributed e-Learning work. The Portfolio SIG helped to support the e-portfolio strand of this work.

=Centre for Recording Achievement= One of the major uses of e-portfolio technology is for Personal Development Planning, and related processes such as professional development. We have very close links with the Centre for Recording Achievement, which is "a national network organisation and a registered educational charity. It seeks to 'promote the awareness of recording achievement and action planning processes as an important element in improving learning and progression throughout the world of education, training and employment'."

The CRA is also an Associate Centre of the Higher Education Academy.

=Other parts of CETIS=

Assessment
We are interested in how results of assessments can be presented to learners, possibly for their reflection or guidance, and how they can use tools (which may be portfolio tools) to present these to others where appropriate, as evidence for their personal skills, competence, qualities, etc. See CETIS's Assessment SIG for matters relating to assessment technology.

Institutional information systems
This is the main area of concern for the CETIS Enterprise SIG. We in the Portfolio SIG are interested particularly in how information about learners held in student record systems can be used by Portfolio systems, and in other ways which centre on the concerns of the learner.

Accessibility
Accessibility may have importance in two ways for portfolio thinking: firstly to make portfolio tools accessible, and potentially secondly to represent accessibility preferences in a portfolio. The first is shared right across e-learning, so is not peculiar to portfolio thinking. As regards the second, there is room for different opinion about where such preferences should be held. CETIS has a SIG for Accessibility.

Pedagogy
PDP is clearly implicated in pedogogy, and e-portfolio tools can help support PDP. In this area we collaborate with the CETIS Pedagogy SIG.

Metadata
How to express and represent metadata about portfolio items is vital to portfolio tool interoperability. It may be more difficult to agree on what should be represented for portfolios than for many other areas. CETIS has a Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG.