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Learning ePortfolio (also known as Process, Developmental, or Working ePortfolio):

• Purpose: To document and support the learning process over time. It's a space for exploration, experimentation, and reflection on growth and development.
• Content: May include drafts, works-in-progress, reflections on challenges and successes, feedback from instructors and peers, learning goals, and evidence of skill development. It's less about polished final products and more about showing the journey of learning.
• Audience: Primarily the learner themselves and their instructors or mentors.
• Focus: Demonstrating effort, progress, evolving understanding, and metacognitive awareness (thinking about one's own learning).

Showcase ePortfolio (also known as Presentation or Professional ePortfolio):

• Purpose: To highlight best work, achievements, and skills for a specific external audience. It's designed to impress and demonstrate capabilities.
• Content: Features polished, exemplary work, accomplishments, testimonials, resume/CV, and a clear articulation of skills and experiences. The selection of artifacts is highly curated.
• Audience: Potential employers, graduate schools, clients, or the public.
• Focus: Presenting a professional image, marketing one's abilities, and providing tangible evidence of competence. This is often used for job applications or career advancement.

Assessment ePortfolio:

• Purpose: To demonstrate competence, mastery of specific learning outcomes, or fulfillment of requirements for a course, program, or certification.
• Content: Includes specific artifacts that align with defined criteria, standards, or rubrics. Reflections often focus on how the work meets these requirements.
• Audience: Instructors, assessors, accreditation bodies, or review committees.
• Focus: Evaluation and accountability. It provides evidence that the learner has met certain academic or professional standards.

Career ePortfolio:

• Purpose: Specifically tailored to support career exploration, job seeking, and professional development. It's a dynamic extension of a resume.
• Content: Resume/CV, cover letter examples, work samples relevant to desired roles, professional philosophy, certifications, recommendations, and reflections on career-related experiences (like internships).
• Audience: Potential employers, networking contacts, career counselors.
• Focus: Demonstrating employability, showcasing relevant skills and experiences for specific career paths, and managing one's professional brand. This often overlaps significantly with a showcase ePortfolio but has a distinct career-oriented lens.

Personal or Lifelong Learning ePortfolio:

• Purpose: To document and reflect on personal growth, interests, and learning experiences both inside and outside formal education or work.
• Content: Can be very broad and may include reflections on hobbies, travel, volunteer work, personal projects, informal learning, and life goals.
• Audience: Primarily the individual, though parts might be shared with close connections.
• Focus: Self-discovery, personal development, and tracking a holistic learning journey over a lifetime.

Teaching ePortfolio:

• Purpose: Used by educators to document their teaching philosophy, methods, experiences, professional development, and evidence of teaching effectiveness.
• Content: Teaching philosophy statement, sample syllabi, lesson plans, student feedback, examples of student work, reflections on teaching practices, and professional development activities.
• Audience: Hiring committees, promotion and tenure committees, or peers for professional sharing.
• Focus: Demonstrating teaching competence, reflective practice in teaching, and professional growth as an educator.