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The ePortfolio provides LaGuardia students with a tool for collecting their academic work and their reflections on their learning, and for sharing their portfolios on the World Wide Web.  In 2005-6, more than 4,000 LaGuardia students advanced their ePortfolios, making LaGuardia’s ePortfolio project one of the largest of any college in the country.

It prompts students to take more responsibility for their learning while also providing faculty with snapshots of student growth that can help them better understand individual students and the broader process of learning and teaching. Meanwhile, at the institutional level, the ePortfolio will also support a more holistic program assessment process where faculty examine student work as a way of identifying ways to improve our classes and majors.

Moreover, preliminary data gathered using the nationally-acclaimed Community College Survey of Student Engagement shows that ePortfolio helps build student engagement in key areas of academic achievement, including writing, collaboration, and critical thinking.

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