EP1— ePortfolio in healthcare education and practice

While exploring the role of ePortfolio in the education and continuing professional development of healthcare professionals, a key theme of this track should be the exploration of the link between personal health records and ePortfolios.

• Issues: governments everywhere are investigating electronic personal health records in one form or another. Does ownership of health data by patients offers individuals opportunities to improve their health and access to healthcare? How should professionals exploit this opportunity?

• Topics: initial and continuing education of professionals, professional accreditation, professionals-patients relationships, quality of service, learning communities of patients, self-help groups, patients as learners, communities of practice of healthcare professionals, ethics, early warning systems and outbreak detection, quality of service and quality tagging.

NB: 20 abstracts and the 5 best papers submitted in this track will be published in the International Journal of Clinical Skills

EP2 — ePortfolio in initial education and personal identity construction

Beyond the role of ePortfolio in initial education, from kindergarten to higher education, a central issue should be the relation between ePortfolio practice and the construction of one's identity.

• Issues:  can we define different ePortfolio practices and technologies at the different stages of initial education, formal and informal? What skills and competencies do learners, educators, instructional designers need? 

• Topics: multiple literacies, multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence, digital literacy, creativity reflective learning, self-directed learning, personal development planning (PDP), lifelong learning, learning communities, informal learning, learning management, story telling, learning journal, personal competencies, story telling, key competencies, identity construction, professional identity self-concept, multiple identities, ethics, cultural identity.

EP3 — ePortfolio in employability and organisational learning

Beyond the role of ePortfolios in contributing to lifelong learning and employability, a key issue should be the exploration of link between individual ePortfolios, community ePortfolios and organisational learning.

• Issues: how do ePortfolios contribute to the development of employability and the recognition of competencies and talents? How do ePortfolios contribute to individual, community and organisational learning? What roles for the ePortfolios in quality assurance and management?

• Topics: reflective practice, communities of practice, professional communities, collaborative learning, organisational ePortfolio, organisational learning environments, knowledge management, SME ePortfolios, employability, employability skills, recruitment, professional identity, career portfolio, continuing professional development, social reputation, recommendation systems, social integration, mobility, retirement/rewirement portfolios, migrant portfolios, researcher portfolios, artist portfolios.

EP4 — ePortfolio, policies and implementation

The objective of this track is to explore the design of policies, organisational, territorial and national, leading to the creation of a seamless ePortfolio ecosystem. A key issue should be the analysis of ePortfolio drivers and the policy incentives.

• Issues:  How to move from pilot initiatives to successful large scale projects? How to combine the benefit from rapid innovation in technologies with the need for stability of institutional systems? What are the benefits of territorial (local, regional or national) and sectoral ePortfolio deployments? How do ePortfolios contribute to the quality assurance of assessment and accreditation processes?  , assessment and accreditation. 

• Topics: transparency of qualifications, accreditation of prior learning, authentic assessment, accreditation, quality assurance, quality improvement, audit, audit trail, organisational policies, change management, scalability, maintenance, staff competencies, support services,, learning organisation, learning cities, learning regions. costs and return on investments.. 

EP5 — ePortfolio, technologies and system architectures

The objective of this track is to explore the impact of ePortfolio and emerging technologies on the design of learning, employment and healthcare services and architectures. A central issue should be the exploration of the benefits of seamless interaction across multiple information systems and technologies and the scalability of architectures.

• Issues: building and exploiting ePortfolios in virtual worlds. The benefits and costs of aggregation over integration of informations systems. How do digital identity management framework (Liberty Alliance, OpenID, CardSpace, etc.) impact learning and development system architectures? What ePortfolio systems and technology should I chose?

• Topics: next generation ePortfolios, eportfolio authoring, ePortfolio management, Web 2.0, social computing, virtual worlds, avatars, personal learning spaces, relationship management systems, personal digital safe, personal data stores, user-generated contents, user-generated contexts, blogs, wikis, mobile learning, authentication, certificates, interoperability, standards, federation of identities, federation of services, trust, privacy, privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), encryption technologies, role based access control, ontologies, system architecture, digital rights management,