This paper introduces the background to the JISC work within the e-portfolio domain in the UK and presents an overview of past and current activities and the drivers for these developments. This is followed by a review of JISC’s approach at drawing out the learning and implications for e-portfolio practice from this extensive collection of work and its dissemination. The analysis of twenty one ...

This paper introduces the background to the JISC work within the e-portfolio domain in the UK and presents an overview of past and current activities and the drivers for these developments. This is followed by a review of JISC’s approach to drawing out the learning and implications for e-portfolio practice from this extensive collection of work and its dissemination. The analysis of twenty one ...

Recent advances in modern finance theory and decision science are being utilized in a more systematic fashion by the upstream petroleum industry. Corporate planning groups as well as business units in oil companies are increasingly applying techniques such as decision analysis, simulation, portfolio management, and real options analysis to improve the overall decision making and capital allocat...

Harry Markowitz’s mean-variance model for portfolio choice posits a linear relationship between the return of a portfolio and the returns of its component securities. This linear relationship does not hold in an ex post setting when monthly or quarterly returns are used. 1 The Standard Portfolio Selection Model Harry Markowitz begins Mean-Variance Analysis in Portfolio Choice and Capital Market...

The most effective higher education quality indicators are openness and transparency of all the University activities results, including the results of educational and scientific work of every teacher and student. That is why modern electronic university learning environment should provide open decentralizing component that would contain a webpage with every educational process participants’ qu...

E-portfolios are often celebrated as the choice of technology to engage students and trainees in the personal development processes which underpin their academic and professional careers, but the process of portfolio creation cannot work in isolation. Research highlights the importance of feedback, relevance and assessment in engaging users and encouraging the pedagogical processes which can be...

The last two decades were characterized by a huge development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) particularly web technologies. This fact caused the most accelerated and comprehensive social and economic revolution ever seen: people and companies began to access web services and contents to improve knowledge and to establish interaction among each other. This new paradigm has ...

The number of students in class in studies of first year engineering degree in many Universities, in particular at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, is high with an average of 75 students per class. While the large groups permit to transmit information efficiently, to a large number of students, it is equally true that it is difficult to teach students to actively think about what they a...