E-Portfolio Method for Planning and Reflection

Rapid changes in the labor market require from today’s graduates not only mastery of professional competencies but also the ability to plan their careers and to assess critically achievements and opportunities. Educational institutions are fulfilling an urgent task to develop students’ social and personal competencies that will contribute to professional growth and socialisation in the modern society. In addition, digitalisation in almost all spheres of life affects the ways of communication in the society and the educational process. The use of the e-portfolio method in the learning process meets the requirements of our time. Students gets the possibility to visualise success that facilitates critical analysis of achievements and opportunities. The article describes the experience of using e-portfolios in the educational process when studying topics in a foreign language, concerning the problems of career growth and competitiveness in the labour market, planning business. Analysis of the staff for publications in the portfolio, comparing portfolios with others forced students to look from the outside at their achievements, to see gaps in competencies. Thanks to the systematisation of information in the portfolio, they understand the necessity of phased planning of tasks and reflection on achievements. Interest in working with an e-portfolio was reinforced by using it to present oneself in the labour market and/or to communicate with clients.

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