WITHOUT PORTFOLIO *

... photo Naomi Hunt, 2006

"A PORTFOLIO is a collection of concrete learning outcomes produced during a learning experience. This learning experience may be autonomous and self-motivated, or coupled with institutional teaching procedures. In fact it may be both, a characteristic of university level learning experiences. The length of the learning process may be a task, a lesson, a course unit, a course, a curricular module, an entire curriculum, or indeed whatever results from an ongoing life-long learning process. The concrete learning outcomes are produced by a learner, such as experiment reports, reports on scientific literature, demonstrations, multimedia documents, interviews, exercises on specific skills, tests - in fact, any product which demonstrates a learning outcome."

(...from a mercifully herewith anonymous academic gabblespeak source, found on random website search...)

* It is customary to note in such revelations that “the names of the innocent have been changed to protect their innocence.” Since none in these annals are innocent: actual names and places have been used throughout. So sue me already yet!