E-Portfolios in Higher Education A Multidisciplinary Approach
This book shares the collective experience of integrating electronic portfolios as assessment tools and as instruments for life-long learning in courses across various disciplines in higher education. It enables readers to trace the evolution of e-portfol
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E-Portfolios in Higher Education
Tushar Chaudhuri Béatrice Cabau •
Editors
E-Portfolios in Higher Education A Multidisciplinary Approach
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Editors Tushar Chaudhuri Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong Hong Kong
ISBN 978-981-10-3802-0 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3803-7
Béatrice Cabau Narbonne France
ISBN 978-981-10-3803-7
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Foreword I
Promoting Diversity Through E-Portfolios In the second decade of the twenty-first century, we find ourselves in a time of growing diversity in both our urban spaces and our online spaces. Post-Cold War migration and travel, combined with digital mobility, have ushered in an era often described as superdiverse. It is an era characterised by a ‘diversification of diversity’ (Vertovec 2007, p. 1025) stemming from the complex interplay of linguistic, cultural, social, religious, political, economic, educational, gender, sexual and other human variables and affiliations. Preparing students for their future social, working and civic lives in such a diverse and often unpredictable world requires fostering what are sometimes called graduate attributes, or transferrable skills, or twenty-first century skills. These include communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity, coupled with the digital literacies to make effective use of new technologies to support these skills, as well as the linguistic and intercultural abilities to negotiate today’s urban and online spaces. In this
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