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The Role of e-Portfolio for Smart Life Long Learning

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Life-long learning and whole person development are becoming more critical than just academic performance, particularly in career development perspective. Employers are looking for soft skills more than hard skills from employees. It is one of the responsibilities of universities to develop students’ work readiness. A smart university, as part of a smart city, is no longer limited to provide technologies inside and outside classrooms. In this chapter, we discuss how a smart university may facilitate self-regulated learning of learners through the introduction of personal development e-Portfolio, which assists learners in planning their development path and reflecting upon their own learning. An implementation example in the City University of Hong Kong is reviewed. Also, the way of extending it to lifelong and professional development is discussed.

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Kwok, L.F., Hui, Y.K. (2018). The Role of e-Portfolio for Smart Life Long Learning. In: Uskov, V., Bakken, J., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Universities. SEEL 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59454-5_11

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