Knowledge Management and E-Learning

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ePortfolio 2.0 (as opposed to ePortfolio 1.0) is networked, emergent, and learner-

driven, focuses on individuality, is composed of small pieces loosely joined, uses

blogs and/wikis as its architectural base, tends to follow open standards, and is

stored in a distributed fashion across the network. As stated by Jong, Specht and

Koper (2007) “blogs recently have become a popular way of collecting personal

information and learning experiences related to formal education” (p. 1). With the

functionalities of comments and thus interaction “blogs offer learners a great degree

of autonomy to structure information while also embed reflection in a peer com-

munity” (p. 1). It is interesting to notice t