Andrea Ghoneim: Learn transversal skills through portfolios

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Dr Andrea Ghoneim is eDeveloper - Digital Teaching Services at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business). She has gained extensive experience using and researching portfolios through her participation in EU-funded projects, in particular EUfolio, Europortfolio, and ATS 2020 when she worked at Donau-Universität Krems (Danube University Krems). Recently, she co-edited a white paper on assessment strategies, in which portfolios featured.
Andrea takes us back to these projects, their aims, their approach, and what the benefits of using portfolios were.
Connect with Andrea

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Resources

• Andrea's research publications
• ATS 2020 project website and ATS 2020 resource website
• ATS 2020: Tools and technology for assessment of transversal skills (Andrea's work pacakge)
• BeInSpired: Video about ATS2020
• 'EUfolio: A classroom ePortfolio pilot project', book chapter by Ben Murray and Sinéad Tuohy
• White paper 'Digital Assessment in Higher Education: Perspectives of a European Community of Practice'

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

Capitoli

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Why the interest in portfolios (00:02:33)

3. The ATS 2020 project (00:03:55)

4. Earlier EU portfolio projects (00:09:17)

5. Decline of portfolio implementations (00:11:43)

6. Outcomes of ATS 2020 (00:13:51)

7. Higher education white paper on ePortfolios (00:17:37)

8. Lifelong and lifewide portfolios (00:22:13)

9. Q&A: Three words to describe portfolio work (00:25:06)

10. Q&A: A tip for learning designers or instructors (00:26:45)

11. Q&A: A tip for learners (00:28:19)