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Aaisha Al.Badi (68701/06)Fall 2009
 
Overview / background:
With the recent growth of the Internet and other distance technologies, web based portfolios has become an attractive option for expanding the educational managementsystem which could be more appropriate to the instructor and to the learner. Theinstructor dr.Alaa who taught the course of the distance education in the spring 2008applies for the first time e-portfolio. Thus the students must submit their activities andassignments using e-portfolio instead of submitting portfolios in CDs. They have ahome page which is uploaded on freewebs and has links to the assignments which wasuploaded previously in freewebs, blog or scribd. We conduct this survey to evaluatethe effectiveness of the e-portfolio and its effectiveness from the students' perceptionand the aspects that need more consideration and emphasis when we need to apply e- portfolio next time
.Here is a screen shoot for one of these e-portfolios:Purpose of the study:
The purpose of this study was to:1.Evaluate the effectiveness of web-based course portfolio.
 
2.Evaluate the appropriateness and attractive of the homepage interface to the portfolio visitors
3.
Evaluate to which extant the student benefit from others portfolios
4.
Reveal the difficulties that the students face in uploading and managingtheir portfolios.
Method:
Context of the Study
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Our study was conducted in the learning and instructional technologydepartment where some students take the Distance Education & the Internet"TECH4101"course.In this course the students developed their portfolio whichcontain all the assignments and activities throughout the course and byfollowing some guidelines which was provided by the instructor. Some of theseguidelines were to use the same template or design for the homepage of the portfolio.
 Participants in this study:
Eight groups out of 17 groups were in the course are participate in this study.Each group has one portfolio.
Interments:
This survey data was collected by using questionnaire which can be called(WBLP) which was developed by chang (2001).In addition; we interview somestudents who take the course of distance learning to reveal the reasons behindsome findings and to explore the disadvantages of the e-portfolio asmanagement system.
Findings of the study:
Portfolio effectiveness of the portfolio:
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