The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL — www.aaeebl.org) has institutional members in the U. S., the U. K., the Netherlands, Singapore, and Australia. See list of member institutions at http://www.aaeebl.org/page/List+of+Members. Many of the most recognized ePortfolio leaders in the world are either from these member institutions or on the AAEEBL Board of Directors: http://www.aaeebl.org/page/AAEEBL+Board+of+Directors+and+Administrative+Staff
AAEEBL, as a professional association, aims to move the focus of ePortfolio discussions from the technology to the much more important focus on how people use portfolio tools and other digital tools to re-shape teaching and learning for this new digital era.
AAEEBL hopes to help faculty and students and administrators share the discoveries and innovations occurring on their campuses and at their schools with the AAEEBL community.
AAEEBL therefore offers discussion forums, regional chapters of AAEEBL, and an annual international conference.
Having just launched on May 21, 2009, AAEEBL is already in full operation with 80 institutional members and 10 corporate sponsors. The corporate sponsors will become corporate affiliates as they and we engage in collaborative activities.
AAEEBL is ambitious: the portfolio market is world-wide but with different emphases, the market is also deep with around 40 portfolio vendors around the world, and definitions of the portfolio phenomenon vary wildly. AAEEBL hopes to create more understanding and awareness for the benefit of the portfolio community.
Portfolio tools also vary widely and no general classification system exists to distinguish among the types of tools.
More about AAEEBL: AAEEBL “offices” are at 25 Kristen Lane, North Kingstown, RI and at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at Washington State University, the first office being the home office of the Executive Director, Trent Batson, and the other office being the Center that Gary Brown Directs. AAEEBL is really a virtual organization as is typical of this time.
AAEEBL aims to pleateau at about 200 institutional members in the next year. AAEEBL is loosely affiliated with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (www.aacu.org) and has similar portfolio learning and assessment and employability goals within education as does AAC&U.
AAEEBL is unique in focusing on the revolutionary potential of a particular use of information technology. We are a learning and assessment organization tied to portfolio teaching and learning methods. If faculty, students, and administrators can successfully implement engaging and informative uses of portfolio tools, they will also have adapted to the digital era. The portfolio approach, therefore, is one of the best avenues for educators seeking to move their practices into the technology ecology of this century.
