There are more ePortfolio vendors in the United States than learning management system (LMS) vendors. This is surprising since few people in academia could explain what an ePortfolio is while almost everyone knows what a learning management system is. Perhaps it is this very confusion about what an ePortfolio is that prevents any one vendor from finding the silver bullet that would lead to growth and eventually to consolidation in the market space.
The problem is that portfolio is a learning approach and not a technology. It can also be seen as a communication genre with its own “grammar.”
by Trent Batson
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