E-Portfolios as a tool to enhance student learning experience and entrepreneurial skills

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Increasing digitisation has put pressure on institutions of higher learning around the globe to find effective solutions to better prepare their students for the 21st-century world of work. The paper presents the findings of a qualitative inquiry into the attitudes, feelings, and experiences of entrepreneurship students in a selected private institution of higher learning on the use of e-portfolios as a tool to enhance the learning experience. Data was collected using a combination of focus groups and semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis conducted for this study revealed five (5) emergent themes on the contributions of e-portfolios in enhancing the learning experiences of the modern-day scholar. The resourcefulness, flexibility, engagement, entrepreneurial skills improvement and collaboration emerged as the outstanding contributions of e-portfolios towards enhancing learning. The emergent themes are in line with the entrepreneurial behaviour, imperative for every 21st-century world of work. The value the findings of this study lies in its exploratory utility in exposing the lived-experiences, attitudes, and feelings of modern day students on the role of e-portfolios as a tool to enhance their learning experience and cultivate entrepreneurial behaviour in the modern world of work. Recommendations to explore the technological advantage presented by e-portfolios are presented. 

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2020-02-02

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Mapundu, M., and M. Musara. 2020. “E-Portfolios As a Tool to Enhance Student Learning Experience and Entrepreneurial Skills”. South African Journal of Higher Education 33 (6):191-214. https://doi.org/10.20853/33-6-2990.

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