Noted for future reference...as much for the sheer volume of links as anything else.

ePortfolios.

The link above has more links than you can shake a stick at.  In addition:

• Personal Learning Planner [link corrected]
• PLP and self-directed learning (pdf)

Could we, as an institution, support thousands and thousands of such things (weblogs?)? [Serious Instructional Technology

I would think that an educational institution could support this.  The graduate class I took that was entirely online (Austrian Economics, if you're curious) could have easily been extended to use something like this; while we spent most of our time in FolioViews annotating the text, lectures, and annotations of other students, we easily could have extended our writing into weblogs.  The conversations we'd have had if we were subscribing to each other's feeds might have been amazing, and considerably more real-time than our trading snippets of text back and forth through the professor (which, to be fair, was quite amazing at the time; I still find myself wanting to get all of my books into a Folio format so that I can do the type of annotating and cross-referencing enabled by the technology).[klyjen.blog][via Thomas Burg]

Interesting comment from a learner's perspective. We have touched the topic of learning journals/portfolios a couple of times. See for example this post from Will Richardson from July 2002. Maybe it is time to write up a use case scenario for Weblog based learning journals...

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