SELECTING AN E-PORTFOLIO USING THE SECTIONS MODEL: FINDINGS FROM A TWO PLATFORM PILOT

There is a body of evidence around the use of e-portfolios in higher education. E-portfolios can provide a repository for students to create a body of work that can be used both during their studies and post-study for recruitment purposes. E-portfolios, as a digital format professional portfolio, are becoming common tools in health professional education because of their potential to promote student responsibility for the self-regulated development of professional capabilities. This paper synthesises the process by which a health sciences faculty in a major, research-intensive New Zealand university selected and deployed an e-portfolio solution based on Bates and Poole's SECTIONS model (2003).