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Self-directed Learning in e-Portfolios: Design Issues and Investigation of Students’ Performance

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This paper presents an investigation on students’ learning presence in a blended post-graduate course, designed to promote self-directed learning through e-portfolio activities. The theoretical foundations and the key dimensions of e-portfolio learning activities are outlined, i.e. students’ construction, reflection and collaboration. Following are presented the organizational and the analysis framework of students’ self-directed learning and constructive activities within the e-portfolio. Descriptive analysis and Social Network Analysis of the research data revealed important information regarding individual performance, interaction and collaboration among participants as well as the whole e-portfolio community.

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  1. Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese, Korinthos, Greece

    Athanassios Jimoyiannis & Panagiotis Tsiotakis

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  3. Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Jimoyiannis, A., Tsiotakis, P. (2016). Self-directed Learning in e-Portfolios: Design Issues and Investigation of Students’ Performance. In: Vincenti, G., Bucciero, A., Vaz de Carvalho, C. (eds) E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training. eLEOT 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 160. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28883-3_16

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